OWB 10gR2 - Security and Change Control

I am attempting to setup a customized change control policy in 10gr2. As part of change control, I'll need to setup security to only allow changes to objects that are scoped to the version. In previous versions, I could use WBSecurityServiceImpl. With 10gr2, it looks like the security is more tightly integrated into the control center and I am trying to determine the best strategy.
The interface to control changes in OWB will likely be written in Unix (ksh scripts that run tcl scripts in OMBPlus).
By default, users will have read-only access on all objects. If a change is required, they will need to "check out" the map. Only one user will be able to check out an object at any time. When a map is checked out, a snapshot will be made, and the user will be given access to edit the object.
Once the change is complete, the map will be "checked in", the edit priv will be revoked from the object, and a description of the change will be recorded in a table outside of the control center.
If developer determines that they do not want to make the change, they will simply "release" the object which will cause OWB restore the last snapshot.
If the change is checked in but it is later determined that we need to go back to a previous version of a map, we could "restore" the object from a previous snapshot from the command line.
That is my basic change control strategy. Has anyone attempted to do something similar? Could anyone see problems with this strategy?
I'd really appreciate some feedback from any OWB experts out there. Thanks.

Hi,
you can use the security options in the project configuration. It's for new and old objects, there you can restrict the permissions.
Regards,
Detlef

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