An XML Web Service Singleton
You can easily adopt the example design pattern in a .NET Remoting scenario by using a component configured as a singleton. In an XML Web service, however, this option doesn’t appear. All XML Web services act intrinsically like single-call objects, and separate instances are created for each client. With this hard-wired design, is it possible to create an XML Web service that acts like a singleton?
The short answer is yes. You accomplish this trick by creating the XML Web service as an extra layer. The XML Web service then communicates with a singleton component. There are two possible ways for this communication to take place:
The XML Web service can communicate with a singleton component over .NET Remoting. This isn’t ...
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