1. In a distributed network environment having a server computer system and a plurality of managed resources, each resource maintaining a plurality of objects, a method of representing at least one of the objects comprising: receiving a first schema document that conforms to a property sheet definition such that the first schema document defines a property sheet; receiving a two or more schema documents that conform to a property page definition to thereby define a plurality of property pages, wherein at least one property page originates from a first resource and at least one property page originates from a second resource, the second resource being different from the first resource; modifying the property sheet to include the received property pages; and wherein the property sheet represents the object.