About This Book - VMware VCLOUD API 1.0 - API Programming Manual

About This Book

The vCloud API Programming Guide provides information about version 1.0 of the vCloud API.
VMware provides many different APIs and SDKs for various applications and goals. This book provides
information about the vCloud API for developers that are interested in creating RESTful clients of VMware
Cloud Director.
To view the current version of this book as well as all VMware API and SDK documentation, go to
http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/sdk_pubs.html.
Revision History
This book is revised with each release of the product or when necessary. A revised version can contain minor
or major changes. Table
Table 1. Revision History
Revision Date
30AUG10
Intended Audience
This guide is intended for software developers who are building VMware Ready Cloud Services, including
interactive clients of VMware Cloud Director. This guide assumes you are familiar with Representational State
Transfer (REST) and RESTful programming conventions, the Open Virtualization Format Specification, and
VMware Virtual machine technology. Familiarity with other widely‐deployed technologies such as XML,
HTTP, and the Windows or Linux operating systems is also assumed.
VMware Technical Publications Glossary
VMware Technical Publications provides a glossary of terms that might be unfamiliar to you. For definitions
of terms as they are used in VMware technical documentation go to http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs.
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1 summarizes the significant changes in each version of this book.
Description
Version 1.0
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