About the APIs

The APIs represent and manipulate CIM objects. These APIs represent CIM objects as Java classes. An object is a computer representation or model of a managed resource, such as a printer, disk drive, or CPU. Because the CIM Object Manager enforces the Common Information Model (CIM) 2.2 Specification, the objects you model using the APIs conform to standard CIM objects.

Programmers can use these interfaces to describe managed objects and retrieve information about managed objects in a particular system environment. The advantage of modeling managed resources using CIM is that those objects can be shared across any system that is CIM compliant.