Followup on return event from load balanced SO

Hi folks,
I had earlier posted a message about receiving a return event from an
asynchronous call to a Load Balanced Service Object.
It turns out that return events are handled specially and that the
sample provided will work just fine as is. In other words, the return event
is mapped to the load balanced copy that it was called on.
Thanks all of you who sent such interesting work arounds.
-John
John Jamison
Sage Solutions, Inc.
353 Sacramento Street, Suite 1360
San Francisco, CA 94111
415 392 7243 x 306
[email protected]

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