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Is it possible to maintain sessions the RESTful way?

From: Srinivas Naresh Bhimisetty <Srinivas.Bhimisetty_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:56:30 +0530

Hi,

    this is a Jersey newbie. I was going through some docs which said,
RESTful web services are stateless.
If these are stateless, would it be possible for someone to create a
RESTful web service which has to maintain the session information for
the different actions, i.e., if I want to write a web service, something
like a Credit Card Transaction, how would I maintain the state if I want
to write it the RESTful way. Is it possible? Is the RESTful approach
suitable only for few kind of services?
  I think I'm confused. Could somebody please elaborate this particular
issue?
  
Thanks,
Naresh