About This Book
This book, the vSphere Web Services SDK Developer’s Setup Guide, provides information about setting up your development environment to use the VMware® vSphere Web Services SDK.
VMware provides several different APIs and SDKs for various applications and goals. This book provides information about using the vSphere Web Services SDK for developers who are interested in creating client applications for managing VMware® vSphere components available on VMware ESXi and VMware vCenter Server systems.
To view the current version of this book as well as all VMware API and SDK documentation, go to http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/sdk_pubs.html
Revision History
This guide is revised with each release of the product or when necessary. A revised version can contain minor or major changes. The Revision History summarizes the significant changes in each version of this guide.
| Revision | Description |
|---|---|
| 02APR2020 | vSphere 7.0 release: Java 1.7 no longer supported. |
| 17Apr2018 | Minor updates for vsphere 6.7. |
| 05Nov2016 | Update and restructure
procedures for modifying service endpoints with vSphere 6.5.
Simplify process of building C# DLLs and samples. |
| 12Mar2015 | vSphere 6.0 release. Changed destination directory for C# DLLs. |
| 20Feb2014 | Corrected instructions for modifying reverse proxy configuration. |
| 04Dec2013 | Clarified location of Web Services SDK. |
| 01Oct2013 | Revised C# setup instructions to reflect simplified procedure in 5.5 release and use new tools. Corrected path to Java sample. Updated Java version. Fixed minor typographical errors in code. |
| 09Sep2012 | Removed Axis support for 5.1 release. Made more corrections and expansions to C# instructions. |
| 17Nov2011 | Corrected setup instructions for C# stubs. |
| 24Aug2011 | Updated for vSphere 5.0 (included information on using JAX-WS bindings). |
| 13Jul2010 | Minor updates for vSphere 4.1 (new WSDL file configuration, example syntax). |
| 07May2009 | Revised release of the vSphere Web Services SDK Developer’s Setup Guide for vSphere Web Services SDK 4.0. Server-certificate setup information is located in the reference section. Changed directory name for WSDLFILE environment variable. |
| 29Nov2007 | Initial release of vSphere Web Services SDK Developer’s Setup Guide for VMware Infrastructure SDK 2.5. |
Intended Audience
This book is intended for anyone who wants to develop applications using the VMware vSphere Web Services SDK. vSphere Web Services SDK developers typically include software developers creating client applications using Java or C# (in the Microsoft .NET environment) targeting VMware vSphere.
VMware Technical Publications Glossary
VMware Technical Publications provides a glossary of terms that might be unfamiliar to you. For definitions of terms as they are used in VMware technical documentation go to http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs.
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