WBEM Services Specification

JSR 48 WBEM Services Specification is a Java Specification Request developed under the Java Community Process. It specifies the Java language binding of the DMTF Common Information Model/Web-Based Enterprise Management standards. The JSR 48 Expert Group has completed the public review in 2006 and is now on the way to create a Technology Compatibility Kit in order to finalize the standard. The API can be regarded as stable.

JSR 48 requires Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE; formerly J2SE) 1.4 or higher.

API content

The API is composed of 5 packages:

1. javax.cim — Contains the Java representations of CIM entities
2. javax.wbem — Contains WBEM entities common to all services
3. javax.wbem.client — Contains the WBEM client
4. javax.wbem.listener — Contains the indication listener
5. javax.wbem.provider — Contains the provider interface

Implementations

The JSR 48 specification lead has published a reference implementation on SourceForge in the WBEM Services project. The SBLIM CIM Client for Java adopted the JSR 48 API with the 2.0 release, the OpenPegasus project will use JSR 48 for their JMPI provider interface.

External links

• JSR 48 on JCP Home — The home page of the JSR 48 expert group.
• WBEM Services — Open source project containing the JSR48 reference implementation.
• SBLIM — Open source project providing a JSR 48 compliant Java CIM client (and much more).
• OpenPegasus — Open source project providing a CIM Object Manager written in C++ that will adopt JSR 48 for their Java provider interface (JMPI).