Re: [Xen-devel] XCP Java language bindings

[David Erickson <halcyon1981@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dave,

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Dave Scott <Dave.Scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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

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