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After I blogged the top 5 myths of vSphere API, William Lam suggested me to write a bit more on the views in his comments. If you haven’t followed him (@lamw) at Twitter yet, you may want to. His vGhetto Perl repository is one of the best resources for people who use VI Perl.

For sure, VMware loves the term “view”. As far as I know, there are 3 different ”views.” Two of them are for APIs; the last one is for the desktop product family. We are not going to talk about the product View in this blog. You can find more information at VMware web site.

Let’s instead focus on the two “Views” for developers: one is in VI Perl and .NET/PowerCLI; the other is part of the core vSphere API. Read more »

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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Today is my first day in a four day training – Rich Web Applications With Spring. It’s a pretty intensive day from 7AM to 3PM which covered the following:

• Quick start with Spring Tool Suite  and reference application.
• Spring MVC essentials, including architecture, controllers, conventions.
• Using layouts and views, including composite views with Apache Tiles, and multiple rendering technologies like Excel, PDF in addition to the HTML.
• Processing form pages, including data binding, validation, and form tags.

I used Java Servlet and JSP about 10 years ago while working on a NMS project. At that time, there was no good MVC framework for developing a large web application. You had to program against the Java Servlet APIs directly. Jason Hunter’s book Java Servlet Programming was my favorite book. Read more »

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.