title: Does SOAP have to be stateful?
body: <p>REST is clearly Stateless, meaning the request to the server contains all the information that the server requires to understand it, the server does not maintain a session. </p>
  
  <p>Now my question is, does SOAP has to be stateful, I have worked with SOAP where the exact definition of REST would seem to be true for SOAP as well?</p>