A PODS registers a PODSObjectSrc with the PODSObjectMgr. When an object needs to be looked up, the PODSObjectMgr calls objectForName() on each PODSObjectSrc until an object with a matching name is found. If several objects should happen to have the same name, only the first one found is returned. As a PODS author, you choose the names for your POD's objects. You should follow naming conventions that minimize the likelihood of a name conflict.

iAnywhere Solutions recommends that PODS developers use names of the form "companyName.privateName" to name PODS objects. The "companyName" portion should be the top-level DNS domain name of the organization to which an author belongs. For example, the company foo.com could use "foo" as the companyName for naming PODS objects.