Can we make Restful webservice stateful

Question

I have been reading about about Restful webservices being Stateless. I can also see that most of Soap based webservices are also stateless and can be made stateful if needed

Answer 1

Web service, whether it is Rest or SOAP, is by default, designed stateless. But there can be use cases where it is required to be stateful. Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF) provided by OASIS, can be used to make a SOAP web service, stateful. Add a ResourceProperties attribute to the endpoint and add a ResourceProperty operation to the WSDL and pass it across web services.

Rest engages in state transfer and to make them stateful, we can use client side or db persisted session state, and transfer them across web service invocations as an attribute in either the header or a method parameter.