1. A method for creating universal information object management environment as an executable environment description, the method comprising the steps of: creating descriptions of information sources, associated information objects, object characteristics, and relationships among the information sources, information objects, and object characteristics, where the descriptions are fully functionally described by the descriptions of the information sources, associated information objects, object characteristics, and their relationships; creating universal components that represent information objects, types of sources, types of characteristics, and types of relationships, which collectively represent the services and behavior of the environment, whose configurations are defined by associated descriptions, including descriptions of associated information objects, object characteristics, and their relationships; and assembling at runtime instances of information objects defined on information sources by collecting universal components with associated objects, object characteristics, and relationships that represent their behavior and configuration within the network of their described relationships.
5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising the step of accessing another instance of a universal information object management environment as collections of information sources.