Innovation, Openness, Community: Celebrating 2nd Anniversary of vSphere Java API
It’s been two years since the first release of VI Java API on May 22, 2008. As of today, this VMware sponsored open source API has been downloaded more than 8,200 times including 1,000+ direct access to the source code from SVN. More importantly, the API has been widely adopted by VMware Community including partners and customers in their products and operation environment. I was amazed to hear success stories from companies which use this API to manage 10,000 servers.
Besides Java, people also started to use JVM languages such as Jython and Groovy to leverage the API. I think that is the direction for the API to be used by system administrators who look for an alternative to vSphere PowerCLI which is a great product with no choice but on Windows only.
How Was It Started?
The API was started because of my personal experience while helping VMware strategic partners. I found the Web Services SDK hard to use, and related samples hard to follow because of the procedural nature of Web Services. So I started to think how to solve the problem. During March and April 2008, I wrote code every night on my old Compaq notebook after helping my kid to sleep at night.
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