WS-CIM Public Release
The DMTF has posted the Preliminary (public) release of the WS-CIM Mapping Specification (DSP0230) for review and implementation. The specification is a normative description of a protocol independent mapping of the Common Information Model (CIM) to XML Schema, WSDL fragments and metadata fragments. The idea is to allow current Web Services infrastructure to be used in managing distributed resources while leveraging the existing CIM schemas.
One of the effects of this work will be the availability of the CIM Schemas as XML Schema documents located at: http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/CIM_ClassName
but give them some time to convert the existing MOF files over to these schema documents for the various releases. Sun and others are creating tools to do this conversion (check out the wiseman project). So if WS-CIM is protocol agnostic, and a protocol such as WS-Management is model agnostic, what specifies how they fit together? Well, also approved for release last week is the WS-Management CIM Binding (DSP0227), essentially an appendix to the WS-Management specification that normatively defines how to access and mutate instances of the CIM Schema using WS-CIM over wsman.
but give them some time to convert the existing MOF files over to these schema documents for the various releases. Sun and others are creating tools to do this conversion (check out the wiseman project). So if WS-CIM is protocol agnostic, and a protocol such as WS-Management is model agnostic, what specifies how they fit together? Well, also approved for release last week is the WS-Management CIM Binding (DSP0227), essentially an appendix to the WS-Management specification that normatively defines how to access and mutate instances of the CIM Schema using WS-CIM over wsman.
