General Web Services Question

[Dacuna]

Can a Web Service return a dataset? If so, what are the limitations of a Web
Service when you compare it to a DCOM DLL?
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Thank you for your help

[Erymuzuan Mustapa]

Yes you can return a dataset for web service operation but the dataset's
diffgram behavior would definitely limit the interoperability of your
web services. WS limitation compare to DCOM, you can't serialize complex
or byte type to XML.. because web services is meant more for
interoperability. but the advatanges of XML web services especially for
interop and reuse grealt outweigh the benefit of DCOM

Regards
Erymuzuan Mustapa
Dacuna wrote:

Can a Web Service return a dataset? If so, what are the limitations of a Web
Service when you compare it to a DCOM DLL?