Writing a server plugin

Although mostly used for WS-Cim operations, WS-Man is a generic transport protocol able to support various applications.

WS-Man defines

  • the structure of messages
    • SOAP based (envelope, header, body)
  • the notion of resources
  • Addressing (header contents)
    • WS-Addressing
  • Operations on resources
    • Create (body contents)
    • Get
    • Put
    • Delete
    • Enumerate
    • Pull
    • Release
    • Custom
    • Identify