SOAP Web service applications in OpenEdge are designed to run in one of two AppServer session models:
Session-Managed
Session-Free
The session model of a SOAP Web service application significantly affects how the WSA manages the SOAP Web service at run time. In any case, the session model specified for a SOAP Web service (when defined using ProxyGen) must match the session model of the AppServer to which it is bound. Otherwise, the WSA returns an error when a client attempts to access the SOAP Web service.