Hi,
The way I understand the current situation there is an API to XMLRPC
that is part of the xenServer product line. This java api is not
actually 100% compatible with the api (and the xend code ) from xen.org
. (I have verified this)
I have an interest in having a java API which would be available for the
open source version (not tied to XenServer) and was thinking that if no
one was working this, I might be interested in contributing some time
towards it. I have some ideas about how this might be done, but not
having been a part of a community development project, I am not sure
about how the process flows.
I have taken the XenServer java api and done some mods based on the
python source and the API spec, Xen Management API dated 24, july 2008
(Stable release) and have been having some success using it to
manipulate and retrieve values via xmlrpc. I am assuming that this is ok
for my early testing, but would like to share with the community if
possible. I have had to change some of the method signatures, of
course since they are different. I haven't
kept a list of diffs, etc. and the code is not a 100% tested, validated
to be faithful to the spec above. but
I would be willing to make it available. ( I might need to spend an hour
or so refactoring the package names)
But I would like to know if there is anyone working on the open source
xen java bindings and if not, whether
there would be interest in having them become a separate project under
xen.org. I am not sure what the process
is for contributing to the xen community as a developer so any insights
there would be useful also. I would
be willing to take the lead on getting started if no one else is working
this.
things that might make sense to talk about are:
Should the API be tied to the api for XenSource.com's open source sdk
java bindings?
if so, what is the mechanism that would be needed to maintain separate
trees because
of the different feature sets they currently support?
Does anyone know if the current xen-api and Specification are auto
generated to any degree? they definitely seem like a candidate for code
generation from a common spec of some sort. (could be useful for other
bindings as well)
Any discussion is appreciated.
regards,
Brian Dealy
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Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:26:56 -0800
From: "hlebegue" <hlebegue@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-API] Xen API - Java RPC Binding
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I found some old references to a library developed in Cambridge UK for
which the link is no longer active
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~tw275/java-binding-source.tar.gz
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/%7Etw275/java-binding-source.tar.gz
I also found a sample using the Apache JavaRpc client on the slides on
the Wiki
Has anyone developed a Java library that wraps around the Rpc bindings
to expose the XenAPI ?
Thanks in advance
Hugo Lebegue
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