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Information Model (CIM) remote method invocation (RMI) is fully supported. Other
protocols, such as XML/HTTP, are not guaranteed to work completely with the com.sun
application programming interface.
The following table lists examples of invocations that execute successfully under RMI but fail
under XML/HTTP:
Method Invocation Error Message
CIMClient.close() NullPointerException
CIMClient.execQuery() CIM_ERR_QUERY_LANGUAGE_NOT_SUPPORTED
CIMClient.getInstance() CIM_ERR_FAILED
CIMClient.invokeMethod() XMLERROR: ClassCastException
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