vSphere Web Services SDK Developer’s Setup Guide

This book, the
vSphere Web Services SDK Developer’s Setup Guide,
provides information about setting up your development environment to use the VMware® vSphere Web Services SDK.
VMware provides several different APIs and SDKs for various applications and goals. This book provides information about using the vSphere Web Services SDK for developers who are interested in creating client applications for managing VMware® vSphere components available on VMware ESXi and VMware vCenter Server systems.

Revision History

This guide is revised with each release of the product or when necessary. A revised version can contain minor or major changes. The Revision History summarizes the significant changes in each version of this guide.
Revision History
Revision
Description
30MAR2020
Corrections related to Java versions.
17Apr2018
Minor updates for vsphere 6.7.
05Nov2016
Update and restructure procedures for modifying service endpoints with vSphere 6.5.
Simplify process of building C# DLLs and samples.
12Mar2015
vSphere 6.0 release. Changed destination directory for C# DLLs.
20Feb2014
Corrected instructions for modifying reverse proxy configuration.
04Dec2013
Clarified location of Web Services SDK.
01Oct2013
Revised C# setup instructions to reflect simplified procedure in 5.5 release and use new tools. Corrected path to Java sample. Updated Java version. Fixed minor typographical errors in code.
09Sep2012
Removed Axis support for 5.1 release. Made more corrections and expansions to C# instructions.
17Nov2011
Corrected setup instructions for C# stubs.
24Aug2011
Updated for vSphere 5.0 (included information on using JAX-WS bindings).
13Jul2010
Minor updates for vSphere 4.1 (new WSDL file configuration, example syntax).
07May2009
Revised release of the
vSphere Web Services SDK Developer’s Setup Guide
for vSphere Web Services SDK 4.0. Server-certificate setup information is located in the reference section. Changed directory name for WSDLFILE environment variable.
29Nov2007
Initial release of
vSphere Web Services SDK Developer’s Setup Guide
for VMware Infrastructure SDK 2.5.

Intended Audience

This book is intended for anyone who wants to develop applications using the VMware vSphere Web Services SDK. vSphere Web Services SDK developers typically include software developers creating client applications using Java or C# (in the Microsoft .NET environment) targeting VMware vSphere.