(1) In AFP, a collection of printing instructions, and sometimes data to be printed, that consists entirely of structured fields. A resource object is stored as a member (or file) of a library and can be called for by PSF when needed. The different resource objects are: coded font, font character set, code page, page segment, overlay, form definition, and page definition.
(2) The representation of an actual network resource, such as a service, file, and program.