title: Best method for using Entity Framework with web services
body: <p>I have a legacy ASP.Net web application that is basically used to process web services.</p>
  
  <p>I am adding some new functionality and would like to start using EF4.1.  I'm fairly new to EF, and I'm not quite sure the correct path to take here.</p>
  
  <p>The client using this web service is a Linux based client running Apache, so data will be passed back and forth using SOAP.</p>
  
  <p>My question is, what is the best practice for getting EF models into and out of a SOAP data class?  Would using EF POCO classes be the best for this?</p>