I am at a loss of words. So don’t expect anything profound. The fact is, I have gone to almost everybody on this floor, in search of the perfect person who could teach me to get a decent web service up; not much luck. People have ended up in this place with as half-baked knowledge as mine. Ok. Not as half-baked as mine; maybe a little less.

In about a week's time the condition is:
"Sriram, can I ask you something?"
Oh, no!!! It's the web service guy again!!!
"Sure."
"What is a namespace?"
Dumb fellow; wonder how he got here. What is a namespace?!!!
"A namespace is a ......" The sermon lasts a couple of minutes.
"Thanks for the information."
"You're welcome."As long as you don’t come back.

I am back at my seat, trying fiercely to put down the profoundly enlightening piece of information I got from this guy. My memory has failed me yet again; I don’t remember a thing, because I didn’t understand a thing. My musings continue.

Oh! There comes my project lead.
"Hi Venkat."
"Hi!", with an emphatic smile.
"So, whats up with our web service?" says he.
"Uh....I am trying to construct a SOAP container for the XML data we are going to pass into the web service. The point is to make the web service interoperable so that it is accessible across platforms. The web service is going to pull the XML data out of the SOAP container, parse it and ping the database for corresponding database requests."
"Makes sense."
It does?!!! Doesn’t make any sense to me!!!
"And what about the business logic?"
Ah!!! Now you're coming to the point. I reel off all the garbage gathered collected by months of being in the same account(consider an account synonymous with a client).
"Cool!" Walks off.

Back to square one. Don’t know what that godforsaken namespace means.