The Object Management Group has issued a fourth Request for Proposals for object services: this time it’s after Licensing, Properties and Query services to add to the eleven others it already has for its object framework standard. The Licensing service will be for developing and implementing software usage policy; Object Properties are typed, named values, and are the dynamic equivalent of attributes, the Object Group says; the Query services is expected to enable the specification of language bindings to direct manipulation languages and to unnamed objectified SQL implementations of which there are already several. Letters of intent to submit are due by July 25. The Object Group is also now addressing security issues via a white paper its workgroup in that area has prepared.
