Native WS on SQL

in sql 2005 and 2008 there is an interesting feature to expose as web service your store procedure....

well, in several cases that could be useful and avoid to write useless wrapper code... but I understand the possible concern on the hosting runtime, performances and so on

unluckily it is not going to be supported anymore from MS in next versions of SQL

for a quick reference on how to implement it, take a look at this article:
http://www.developer.com/db/article.php/10920_3767311_1/Creating-Native-Web-Services-in-SQL-Server.htm