The Object and VersionObject object types (objectTypes.xml: OBJECT, VERSION) contain central technical attributes. These should not be changed during customizing. Object types that are subject to the ARIS Risk & Compliance Manager versioning mechanism need to extend the VersionObject object type. Non-versioned object types inherit from Object directly. Similar to the Java programming language, it is not necessary to explicitly specify the extension of the Object object type, it is extended automatically.