Just in thinking about it something akin to the Whidbey ObjectDataSource might be an answer to hand-coding all these conversions between your business objects and web services??
Also, remoting will not work in my particular scenario as the clients can be anything such as Axis/Java. My understanding is that remoting is buried in Indigo as essential tcp/soap/ws-e. So remoting, web services simply have a framework around them. =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentorŪ http://www.develop.com Some .NET courses you may be interested in: Essential .NET: building applications and components with C# November 29 - December 3, in Los Angeles http://www.develop.com/courses/edotnet View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com