Use the newInstance method to create an instance of an existing class. If the existing class has a key property, the application must set the key property to a unique value. As an option, an instance can define additional qualifiers that are not defined for the class. These qualifiers can be defined for the instance or for a particular property of the instance and do not need to appear in the class declaration.
Applications can use the getQualifiers method to get the set of qualifiers defined for a class.
This example uses the newInstance method to create a Java class representing a CIM instance, for example, a Solaris package, from the Solaris_Package class.
... { /*Connect to the CIM Object Manager in the root\cimv2 namespace on the local host. Specify the username and password of an account that has write permission to the objects in the root\cimv2 namespace. */ UserPrincipal up = new UserPrincipal("root"); PasswordCredential pc = new PasswordCredential("root_password"); /* Connect to the namespace as root with the root password. */ CIMClient cc = new CIMClient(cns, up, pc); ... // Get the Solaris_Package class cimclass = cc.getClass(new CIMObjectPath("Solaris_Package"), true, true, true, null); /* Create a new instance of the Solaris_Package class populated with the default values for properties. If the provider for the class does not specify default values, the values of the properties will be null and must be explicitly set. */ CIMInstance ci = cc.createInstance (new CIMObjectPath("Solaris_Package"), ci); } ...