About This Book

The VMware HTML Console SDK Programming Guide explains how to use the HTML Console SDK API to write browser-based applications for VMware vSphere® and other VMware products.

Intended Audience

This book is intended for anyone who needs to develop applications containing a remote console. Typically this includes software developers who are creating Web applications using JavaScript, and who are targeting virtual machine remote-console functions in vSphere and vCloud Director.

Revision History

This book is revised with each release of the product or when necessary. A revised version can contain minor or major changes.

Table 1. Revision History
Revision Date Description
17 APR 2017 Revised manual for incorporation in the vSphere documentation center.
27 OCT 2016 No changes for the 2.1 release.
12 APR 2016 Very lightly revised for the 2.0 release.
15 SEP 2015 Initial release of the VMware HTML Console SDK Programming Guide.

VMware Technical Publications Glossary

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Related Documentation

The documentation for the HTML Console is available on the VMware API and SDK documentation page. Go to http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/.

Background information for the tasks discussed in this book is available in the vSphere documentation set. The vSphere documentation consists of the combined VMware vCenter Server and ESXi documentation.

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