This is owperlprovider, a Perl client and provider interface for OpenWBEM.
It lets you write OpenWBEM providers in Perl. It also includes client side
Perl bindings for OpenWBEM, which lets you write an OpenWBEM client in Perl.

This is not the same as the Perl provider interface that is bundled with
OpenWBEM, that is actually based on NPI (developed by IBM).

Owperlprovider differs from that by being developed directly for OpenWBEM,
and using SWIG (www.swig.org) to generate the wrappers for the objects and
classes.
The Swig-generated code provides an object-oriented way of accessing the
CIM elements; it also provides type-checking (i.e. if you use a CIMInstance
where a CIMObjectPath is expected, you'll get an error instead of crashing
the CIMOM).