(1) A characteristic of an object that describes the object. A property can be changed or modified. Properties can describe an object's name, type, value, or behavior, among other things.
(2) A characteristic or attribute that describes a unit of information.
(3) Any configurable information about a WebSphere business integration component. A component typically has properties that are common to all components of that type (for example, standard connector properties) as well as properties that are specific to that component (for example, connector-specific properties). See also business object property, collaboration property, standard property.
(4) In the Common Information Model (CIM), an attribute that is used to characterize instances of a class.