The current trend with SOA required developers to reorient thier thinking in terms of messages and contracts and schemas rather than in terms of pure objects. This is a major change for a lot of dev's especially for people like me. so i am back to looking at schemas , contracts, undertanding wsdl & soap. While quite a few out there may argue that developers need not have to look at angular brackets and other stuff and that it should be the infrastructure that should translate the object structure into the corresponsing building elements i still believe that there is nothing better than knowing whats happening behind the scenes. so looks like i will need to revisit all the stuff about XMLSchemas, WSDL, SOAP structures e.t.c