> But what about the differences between remoting (with soap > over http) and web services?
When doing SOAP, ASP.NET Web Services is faster in most cases because of the document style encoding. Remoting uses a RPC-Style SOAP encoding which is slower ... HTH, -Ingo Author of "Advanced .NET Remoting" http://www.dotnetremoting.cc You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.