Yellow Bricks

by Duncan Epping

sdk

Are you using the vSphere / VI Java API ? Please take our short survey!

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I just received an email about the below Survey. I would like to ask everyone who is using the Java API for vSphere of VI3 to take it, also those who aren’t using it actively due for instance to the lack of support but have a special interest are invited to take it. VMware would like to improve the Java API and needs your help in order to do so.

Folks,

We are running a survey to better understand the needs of the greater community using the vSphere / VI Java API. I am referring to http://vijava.sourceforge.net.

The survey takes less than 5 minutes and it would help us understand what you need from VMware.  Does your organization require formal support, indemnification, training or does the current model work for you ?

This survey will be confidential; we will not disclose your name or who you work for. We just want to understand how you are using the vSphere / VI Java API and what you need from VMware.

Link to survey: http://www.surveymethods.com/EndUser.aspx?C4E08C96C4859496C2

Thanks for your time and hope to see you at our Developer Days @ VMworld 2010

Pablo  Roesch

vSphere SDK Product Marketing

http://developer.vmware.com

Book: VMware VI and vSphere SDK

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I received Steve Jin’s book VMware VI and vSphere SDK: Managing the VMware Infrastructure and vSphere two weeks ago. For those who don’t know Steve, he is the man behind the VI and vSphere Java API which can be found here. But that’s not the topic today, the topic is the book Steve recently published. The book is available via Amazon and most other large (online) bookstores.

VMware VI and vSphere SDK takes you on a tour through the SDK trenches. Knowing the SDK is essential when scripting or programming with for instance Powershell, Perl, Java and Python.

I am not a developer and always had a tough time understanding the structure and getting my head wrapped around the “managed objects” and “data objects” concepts. Steve managed to get me on the track. I’m half way through the book right now and can already highly recommend it to everyone who wants to know more about the SDK, everyone who recently started scripted and is running into limitations of provided examples, and everyone who wants to know more about the core of vSphere / VI3.

One of the Amazon reviews that stood out to me is the following by David Rousseau:

If like me you are tired of using vSphere or VI 2.5 official SDK, this book is for you.

Steve Jin has done a great job simplifying SDK access and improving performance drastically.
After using his VI Java API described in this book, you will no longer return to official VI Java SDK or other VI Toolkit.

You can code in Java but also in Python using Jython or IronPython.

We’ve choosed Jython and coupled it with some great web frameworks in python like Django. We’ve built a powerful web app exposing a RESTful API.

Add to this a real talent in popularizing VI objects in the SDK, this book saved me lots of time.

Open source VI(vSphere) Java API 2.0 GA!

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For all the developers out there, I just received the following from my colleague Steve Jin:

VI (VSphere) Java API 2.0 was GAed last night. The 2.0 release represents 6 months of continuous (after work) engineering effort since this January. It has packed many features:

New high performance web service engine. When I told people that we replaced AXIS, most of them wanted me to confirm what I said. The new engine is 15X faster in loading, 4+X in de-serialization than AXIS 1.4 with only 1/4 of size.

  • vSphere 4 support.
  • REST client API.
  • Caching framework API.
  • Multiple version support with single set of APIs.
  • Clean licenses. The API and dependent dom4j are all BSD licenses.

The open source project was sponsored by VMware but not supported by VMware. To download it, visit http://vijava.sf.net