Kevin,
I guess I’m missing the big picture here. If they are public in the ParticipatingObject collect so what, does that really matter? They have to be to use any process level rules anyway. Unless you have some type of GetParticipatingObject (byval classname) method to get them from a private collection . It just seems silly to have to add them manually to the collection every time. In our projects we just override the RegisterBusenissObject method in a base class and have it add the passed BO to the ParticipatingObject collection after it calls the code in the base method. IMHO this should be the default behavior handled by the RegisterBusenissObject method.

Thanks
Brian G