SOAP web service evolution

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Published on 2010-04-01T02:04:49Z Indexed on 2010/04/01 11:53 UTC
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Are there any guidelines/tutorials as to how to handle the evolution of a SOAP web service?

I can see that changing existing methods or types would probably not work, but can I just add new methods, complex types, enumeration values without breaking existing clients?

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