Tutorial: Easy VMware Development with VI Java API and Groovy
Every time I google for VI(vSphere) Java API, I get something new. Here is yet another one I just found. It’s a blog article Easy VMware Development with VI Java API and Groovy by Aaron Sweemer. By reading his blog site, I came to know Aaron is actually my colleague at VMware working as a Sr. System Engineer in Cincinnati Ohio. He is the principal blogger at Virtual Insanity.
In his blog, Aaron showed a HelloVM.groovy program after my HelloVM.java from the VMware VI Java API project. Upon reading his code, you can have a good sense what the Groovy version looks like. He also gave a nice and short introduction about Groovy, along with links to online tutorials. So don’t worry if you are new to Groovy. In the end, he listed 7 steps on using VI Java API in Groovy for fun! In one of follow up comments, Guillaume Laforge contributed a slightly “goovy-fied” version. Great jobs Aaron and Guillaume! If you want to leverage VI Java API in Groovy, the article is a must read.
The VI Java API can be used in any JVM languages. If you are interested in writing a tutorial for other languages, please let me know (sjin2008 at users.sourceforge.net) and I will be happy to include your tutorial in the VI Java API website.
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 Email or RSS, and follow on Twitter.
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nice groovy, i think its good article. good luck
Hey i have done some work with vb and was wondering how different is java from vb?