XCP Java language bindings

XCP Java language bindings

[David Erickson]

Hi,
I was wondering if there are any plans to provide Java language
bindings for the XCP platform's SDK? And if so when those might be
available?

Thanks,
David

RE: XCP Java language bindings

[Dave Scott]

> Hi,
> I was wondering if there are any plans to provide Java language
> bindings for the XCP platform's SDK? And if so when those might be
> available?

Hi,

We do have code for generating Java (and C) bindings which we can add to the XCP source. I'll investigate whether it's easiest to add a new repository or include them in an existing one (eg xen-api.hg)

In the meantime you could take a look at the Java bindings in the most recently released XenServer SDK-- they should be ok (except they'll be missing some of the cool new stuff in XCP)

Cheers,
Dave

Re: XCP Java language bindings

[David Erickson]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Dave Scott <Dave.Scott@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I was wondering if there are any plans to provide Java language
>> bindings for the XCP platform's SDK? And if so when those might be
>> available?
>
> Hi,
>
> We do have code for generating Java (and C) bindings which we can add to the XCP source. I'll investigate whether it's easiest to add a new repository or include them in an existing one (eg xen-api.hg)

Sounds great, I look forward to the release.

> In the meantime you could take a look at the Java bindings in the most recently released XenServer SDK-- they should be ok (except they'll be missing some of the cool new stuff in XCP)

On that topic, is there a succinct list of the differences/changes
between XenServer's SDK and XCP's SDK? I am not familiar enough with
the former to easily be able to grok and determine what is new and
cool.

And also, I was having a look around and couldn't find a webpage with
exact SDK docs anywhere (definitely possible that I missed it), but I
was hoping for something similar to
http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/4.0.1/api/docs/html/browser.html
for XenServer.

Thanks!
-David

RE: XCP Java language bindings

[Dave Scott]

Hi David,

> > In the meantime you could take a look at the Java bindings in the
> most recently released XenServer SDK-- they should be ok (except
> they'll be missing some of the cool new stuff in XCP)
> 
> On that topic, is there a succinct list of the differences/changes
> between XenServer's SDK and XCP's SDK? I am not familiar enough with
> the former to easily be able to grok and determine what is new and
> cool.

Unfortunately we've not got a list of API changes. It ought to be easy to generate one because all the APIs have associated version metadata. We're making a project to-do list: I think I'll add this to it.

In the meantime the best thing is to grep

http://xenbits.xen.org/xapi/xen-api.hg?file/c2268131edc6/ocaml/idl/datamodel.ml

for "rel_midnight_ride" ("midnight ride" is a codename corresponding to the new stuff)
 
> And also, I was having a look around and couldn't find a webpage with
> exact SDK docs anywhere (definitely possible that I missed it), but I
> was hoping for something similar to
> http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/4.0.1/api/docs/html/browser.html
> for XenServer.

Hm, I don't think that's on the web anywhere. It's generated by a "make sdk-install" in xen-api.hg if you have an SDK VM handy.

Cheers,
Dave

Re: XCP Java language bindings

[David Erickson]

Hi Dave,

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Dave Scott <Dave.Scott@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
>> > In the meantime you could take a look at the Java bindings in the
>> most recently released XenServer SDK-- they should be ok (except
>> they'll be missing some of the cool new stuff in XCP)
>>
>> On that topic, is there a succinct list of the differences/changes
>> between XenServer's SDK and XCP's SDK? I am not familiar enough with
>> the former to easily be able to grok and determine what is new and
>> cool.
>
> Unfortunately we've not got a list of API changes. It ought to be easy to generate one because all the APIs have associated version metadata. We're making a project to-do list: I think I'll add this to it.
>
> In the meantime the best thing is to grep
>
> http://xenbits.xen.org/xapi/xen-api.hg?file/c2268131edc6/ocaml/idl/datamodel.ml
>
> for "rel_midnight_ride" ("midnight ride" is a codename corresponding to the new stuff)

Great, this was very useful. I noticed a lot of changes focused on
controlling guest's memory, I have a separate thread on the xen-user
list with some questions about what has changed in regards to this in
XCP, perhaps you can comment there?

>
>> And also, I was having a look around and couldn't find a webpage with
>> exact SDK docs anywhere (definitely possible that I missed it), but I
>> was hoping for something similar to
>> http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/4.0.1/api/docs/html/browser.html
>> for XenServer.
>
> Hm, I don't think that's on the web anywhere. It's generated by a "make sdk-install" in xen-api.hg if you have an SDK VM handy.

I had a quick look for an SDK VM, the closest I could find was the DDK
VM for XCP here:
http://www.xen.org/files/XenCloud/Software/20719c/ddk.iso, is this
what you are referring to?

Thanks,
David

Re: XCP Java language bindings

[David Erickson]

Hi Dave,
Just following up to see if there is any news on the Java bindings for XCP?

Thanks,
David Erickson


On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Dave Scott <Dave.Scott@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I was wondering if there are any plans to provide Java language
>> bindings for the XCP platform's SDK? And if so when those might be
>> available?
>
> Hi,
>
> We do have code for generating Java (and C) bindings which we can add to the XCP source. I'll investigate whether it's easiest to add a new repository or include them in an existing one (eg xen-api.hg)
>
> In the meantime you could take a look at the Java bindings in the most recently released XenServer SDK-- they should be ok (except they'll be missing some of the cool new stuff in XCP)
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
>
>