Use the deleteInstance method to delete an instance.
The example does the following:
Connects the client application to the CIMOM
Uses CIMObjectPath to construct an object containing the CIM object path of the object to be deleted
Calls enumerateInstance to get the specified instance and all instances of its subclasses
Calls deleteInstance to delete each instance
import java.rmi.*; import java.util.Enumeration; import javax.wbem.cim.CIMClass; import javax.wbem.cim.CIMException; import javax.wbem.cim.CIMInstance; import javax.wbem.cim.CIMNameSpace; import javax.wbem.cim.CIMObjectPath; import javax.wbem.client.CIMClient; import javax.wbem.client.PasswordCredential; import javax.wbem.client.UserPrincipal; /** * Returns all instances of the specified class. * This example takes five arguments: hostname (args[0]), username * (args[1]), password (args[2]) name space (args[3] and classname (args[4]) * It will delete all instances of the specified classname. The specified * username must have write permissions to the specified name space */ public class DeleteInstances { public static void main(String args[]) throws CIMException { CIMClient cc = null; // if not five arguments, show usage and exit if (args.length != 5) { System.out.println("Usage: DeleteInstances host username " + "password namespace classname "); System.exit(1); } try { // args[0] contains the hostname and args[3] contains the // name space. We create a CIMNameSpace (cns) pointing to // the specified name space on the specified host CIMNameSpace cns = new CIMNameSpace(args[0], args[3]); // args[1] and args[2] contain the username and password. // We create a UserPrincipal (up) using the username and // a PasswordCredential using the password. UserPrincipal up = new UserPrincipal(args[1]); PasswordCredential pc = new PasswordCredential(args[2]); // Connect to the CIM Object Manager and pass it the // CIMNameSpace, UserPrincipal and PasswordCredential objects // we created. cc = new CIMClient(cns, up, pc); // Get the class name (args[4]) and create a CIMObjectPath CIMObjectPath cop = new CIMObjectPath(args[4]); // Get an enumeration of all the instance object paths of the // class and all subclasses of the class. An instance object // path is a reference used by the CIM object manager to // locate the instance Enumeration e = cc.enumerateInstanceNames(cop); // Iterate through the instance object paths in the enumeration. // Construct an object to store the object path of each // enumerated instance, print the instance and then delete it while (e.hasMoreElements()) { CIMObjectPath op = (CIMObjectPath)e.nextElement(); System.out.println(op); cc.deleteInstance(op); } // end while } catch (Exception e) { // if we have an exception, catch it and print it out. System.out.println("Exception: "+e); } // end catch // close session. if (cc != null) { cc.close(); } } }