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title: System objects
description: System objects are pluggable representations of objects on external systems. They follow the same RESTful resource based design principles as managed objects. There is a default implementation for the ICF framework, which allows any connector object to be represented as a system object.
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# System objects

*System objects* are pluggable representations of objects on external systems. They follow the same RESTful resource based design principles as managed objects. There is a default implementation for the ICF framework, which allows any connector object to be represented as a system object.