VIJava Browser – A Great Tool To Recommend!
While browsing the project home of VI Java API, I found a link to a great tool contributed by pitchcat. It is a standalone Java application that shows managed objects and data objects in a tree hierarchy, and all the methods attached to a managed object.
I highly recommend it to all the VI Java API developers. Why? Although you can get similar information from MOB, vijava browser gives you an overview of all the managed objects and clear paths to any managed objects or data objects.
Here are two screen shots:
Fig 1 Login Dialog
Fig 2 Main windows of the VIJava Browser
To download it, click here. VI Java API binary package is needed to run this application. If don’t have it yet, download it here.
Author: Steve Jin is the author of VMware VI and vSphere SDK (Prentice Hall), creator of VMware vSphere Java API. For future articles, please subscribe to RSS or Email, and follow on Twitter.
[...] For the best user experience, vSphere Client hides some of the elements in the real path. For example, you don’t see an element called “vm” in a VI Client inventory tree. To find out exact inventory path, use MOB or the VIJava Browser. [...]