Applications

The CIM Application Management Model is an information model designed to describe a set of details that is commonly required to manage software products and applications. This model can be used for various application structures, ranging from stand-alone desktop applications to a sophisticated, multiplatform, distributed, Internet-based application. Likewise, the model can be used to describe a single software product as well as a group of interdependent applications that form a business system.

A fundamental characteristic of the application model is the idea of the application life cycle. An application may be in one of four states: Deployable, Installable, Executable, and Executing. The interpretation and characteristics of the various objects used to represent applications are largely tied to the mechanisms used to transform applications from one state to another.