1. In a computer-readable medium having stored thereon software objects that have services including one or more methods and properties and that correspond to entities having corporeal relationships within a virtual world environment, the improvement comprising: indications of associational relationships between the entities representing corporeal distinctions between the entities within the virtual world environment, the associational relationships between the entities including Self and Contents relationships and the associational relationships including an enveloping relationship for at least one of the objects in which relationship the object is enveloped by at least one enveloping entity; and software instructions for promulgating event notification methods among the objects corresponding to the entities in a sequence based upon the associational relationships between the entities.