VMware vSphere SDKs and Tools 6.5

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Set Up for Development Using JAX-WS with the Web Services SDK

The samples generated using JAX-WS libraries and compiled using Java JDK 1.7 include
vim25.jar
 and
samples.jar
. You can use these libraries without generating new stubs and recompiling if you are using the same version of the JDK.
The following instructions assume that the target server uses HTTPS, which is the default server configuration.
  1. If the JDK is not installed, create directories for the JDK and for the vSphere Web Services SDK package.
    Do not use spaces in the directory names, to avoid issues with some of the included SDK batch and script files.
  2. Install the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 6.0.
  3. Unpack the components into subdirectories created in Step 1, using the provided installer if appropriate.
    The J2SE uses an installation wizard. The SDK ZIP file unpacks into the directory you specify.
    • Unpack with
      Use folder names
       selected, to maintain the organizational structure.
    • On UNIX development systems, use the
      unzip
       command with the
      -a
       modifier, to ensure proper line-endings in the shell scripts. For example: 
      unzip -a VMware-vSphere-SDK-4.1.0-251329.zip
  4. Import server-certificates and use the Java keytool utility to create a
    vmware.keystore
    . See Import Server Certificates into the Java Keystore for the Web Services SDK for details.
    As an alternative, pass the
    --ignorecert
     argument at runtime to ignore server-certificate verification for any of the sample Java applications.
  5. Create the JAVAHOME environment variable.
    The JAVAHOME environment variable must be set to the root path of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), such as
    C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_21
    . The root directory of your Java installation contains
    bin\javac
     and other binary files needed to build the stubs and the samples.
  6. If you are unable to use the
    run.bat
     script to run Java samples, add the precompiled sample files,
    vim25.jar
     and
    samples.jar
    , to your system CLASSPATH environment variable.
    To test your setup, run the Java version of SimpleClient, as described in Running the Web Services SDK SimpleClient Sample Application to Validate Setup.

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