I created a very simple web service test on my local
machine (the web service and the web server on local).

The web service has two methods.  One method is called
connect it connects to an odbc data source, loads a
dataset using a dataadapter.

The second method returns the dataset loaded by the first.

I created a simple web page that has 2 text fields for a
user name and password and a button.  when the button is
pressed the first method of the service is invoked
passing the user name and password.  The 1st method does
its job and loads the dataset.

The second method is then invoked to retrieve the
dataset.  The second method always has and returns a
dataset with no rows.  1700 rows were there when the
first method exitted.

Do web service instances persist there local data between
invocations of their various methods?
thank you for your help.