1. A computer implemented process for identifying, within object-oriented programming code, conflicts between policies associated with a method, the method being invocable by an object and being a member of at least two statically defined method groupings, each method within a statically defined method grouping being associated with a policy, the process comprising: obtaining, for a method grouping, at least some of the methods which are members of the method grouping, each of the methods obtained from the method grouping being invocable by an associated object; associating, with each of the methods obtained from the method grouping, a corresponding method grouping policy; and for at least one of the obtained methods that also is a member of one or more other method groupings, comparing policies that are associated with the method due to its membership in multiple method groupings, to identify conflicts between the policies associated with the method.