In this post I look at what fields are mandated by the SNIA XAM v1.0 specification and write a small Java application to retrieve their default values using the XAM Reference VIM and EMC’s Centera XAM VIM. What is meant by a field in XAM? According to Section 3.1.5 of the XAM specification v1.0, Part 1, a field is a piece of uniquely identifiable data that can be attached to an XSet, an XSystem, or a XAM Library. More concretely, a field has a name, a number of attributes that describe how to interact with the object, and a value.