A method and implementing system are provided in which CORBA (Common Object Request
Broker Architecture) Life Cycle Service factory finding capabilities are utilized
by a CORBA Query Service query evaluator to find queriable collections using simple
names. The Life Cycle Service, using the simple name, searches a distributed object
oriented environment for both Home and non-Home collections. Means are also provided
to make known to Life Cycle Services, the queriable collections which are not also Homes.
