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<div id="content">
<h1>Java API bindings</h1>
<h2>Presentation</h2>
<p>The Java bindings are currently a work in progress based mostly
on the work of Toth Istvan. The first usable release is 0.2.0, where
most of the naming conventions were defined. Further release will try
as much as possible to stay compatible</p>
<p>The Java bindings make use of <a href="https://jna.dev.java.net/">JNA</a>
to expose the C API in a Java friendly way. The bindings are are based on
work initiated by Toth Istvan.</p>
<h2>Getting it</h2>
<p>
The latest versions of the libvirt Java bindings can be downloaded from:
</p>
<ul><li><a href="ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/java/">libvirt.org FTP server</a></li><li><a href="http://libvirt.org/sources/java/">libvirt.org HTTP server</a></li></ul>
<h2>Hourly development snapshots</h2>
<p> Once an hour, an automated snapshot is made from the latest CVS server
source tree. These snapshots should be usable, but we make no guarantees
about their stability: </p>
<ul><li><a href="ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/java/libvirt-java-snapshot.tar.gz">libvirt.org FTP server</a></li><li><a href="http://libvirt.org/sources/java/libvirt-java-snapshot.tar.gz">libvirt.org HTTP server</a></li></ul>
<h2>CVS repository access</h2>
<p> The master source repository uses <a href="http://ximbiot.com/cvs/cvshome/docs/">CVS</a> and anonymous access
<h3>Maven</h3>
<p>A maven repository is located at <a href="http://www.libvirt.org/maven2/">http://www.libvirt.org/maven2/</a>
which you can use to include this in your maven projects.</p>
<h2>GIT source repository</h2>
<p> The Java bindings code source is now maintained in a <a href="http://git-scm.com/">git</a> repository available on
<a href="http://libvirt.org/git/">libvirt.org</a>:
</p>
<pre>
git clone git://libvirt.org/libvirt-java.git
</pre>
<p>
It can also be browsed at
</p>
<pre>
<a href="http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt-java.git;a=summary">http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt-java.git;a=summary</a>
</pre>
<p></p>
<h2>GIT repository mirror</h2>
<p>
The source code is also mirrored on <a href="http://www.gitorious.org">gitorious</a>
to aid in public development. You clone the repo with
</p>
<pre>
git clone git://gitorious.org/libvirt/libvirt-java.git
</pre>
<p>
It can also be browsed at
</p>
<pre>
<a href="http://gitorious.org/libvirt/libvirt-java">http://gitorious.org/libvirt/libvirt-java</a>
</pre>
<p></p>
<h2>CVS repository access (Deprecated)</h2>
<p> The old source repository uses <a href="http://ximbiot.com/cvs/cvshome/docs/">CVS</a> and anonymous access
is provided. Prior to accessing the server is it necessary to authenticate
using the password <code>anoncvs</code>. This can be accomplished with
the <code>cvs login</code> command:
@ -134,47 +162,20 @@ the <code>cvs login</code> command:
Once authenticated, a checkout can be obtained using
</p>
<pre>
# cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@libvirt.org:2401/data/cvs co libvirt-java
</pre>
<p>
The libvirt-java build process uses GNU autotools, so after obtaining a checkout
it is necessary to generate the configure script and Makefile.in templates
using the <code>autogen.sh</code> command. As an example, to do a complete
build and install it into your home directory run:
</p>
<pre>
./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/usr
make
make install
</pre>
<p>Other build system are not currently available but as usual we take patches
(Eclipse/ant/...) would be welcome !</p>
<p> currently libvirt-java requires a version of libvirt &gt;= 0.4.0 to be
installed as well as the associated libvirt development files/package. It
should compile with any java implementation &gt;= 1.5, the bindings uses
the enum construct which appeared only in that version.</p>
<p>Libvirt-java bindings development occurs on the same mailing-list as
the normal libvirt work see <a href="contact.html">the associated contact
page</a></p>
<h2>GIT repository mirror</h2>
<p>
The CVS source repository is also mirrored using GIT, and is available
for anonymous access via:
</p>
<pre>
git clone git://git.et.redhat.com/libvirt-java
</pre>
<p>
It can also be browsed at
</p>
<p></p>
<h2>Building</h2>
<p>The code is built using ant, and assumes that you have the jna jar installed. Once you have downloaded
the code you can build the code with</p>
<pre>
<a href="http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libvirt-java.git;a=summary">http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libvirt-java.git;a=summary</a>
% cd libvirt-java
% ant build
</pre>
<h2>Content</h2>
<p>The bindings are articulated around a few
classes in the <code>org/libvirt</code> namespace, notably the
classes in the <code>org/libvirt</code> package, notably the
<code>Connect</code>, <code>Domain</code> and <code>Network</code>
ones. Functions in the <a href="html/libvirt-libvirt.html">C API</a>
taking <code>virConnectPtr</code>, <code>virDomainPtr</code> or
@ -192,13 +193,13 @@ lower case, for example the C functions:</p>
</p>
<p>become</p>
<p>
<code>virConn::numOfDomains()</code>
<code>virConn.numOfDomains()</code>
</p>
<p>
<code>virDomain::setMaxMemory(long memory)</code>
<code>virDomain.setMaxMemory(long memory)</code>
</p>
<p> There is of course some functions where the mapping is less direct
and using extra classes to map complex arguments. The <a href="http://libvirt.org/org/libvirt/package-summary.html">Javadoc</a> is available online or as
and using extra classes to map complex arguments. The <a href="http://libvirt.org/sources/java/javadoc">Javadoc</a> is available online or as
part of a separate libvirt-java-javadoc package.</p>
<p>So let's look at a simple example inspired from the
<code>test.java</code> test found in <code>src</code> in the source tree:</p>
@ -226,7 +227,7 @@ public class minitest {
</pre>
<p>There is not much to comment about it, it really is a straight mapping
from the C API, the only points to notice are:</p>
<ul><li>the import of the modules in the <code><span style="color: #0071FF; background-color: #FFFFFF">org.libvirt</span></code> namespace</li><li>getting a connection to the hypervisor, in that case using the
<ul><li>the import of the modules in the <code><span style="color: #0071FF; background-color: #FFFFFF">org.libvirt</span></code> package</li><li>getting a connection to the hypervisor, in that case using the
readonly access to the default test hypervisor.</li><li>getting an object representing the test domain using <span style="color: #007F00; background-color: #FFFFFF">lookupByName</span></li><li>if the domain is not found a LibvirtError exception will be raised</li><li>extracting and printing some information about the domain using
various <span style="color: #E50073; background-color: #FFFFFF">methods</span>
associated to the Domain class.</li></ul>

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<h1>Java API bindings</h1>
<h2>Presentation</h2>
<p>The Java bindings are currently a work in progress based mostly
on the work of Toth Istvan. The first usable release is 0.2.0, where
most of the naming conventions were defined. Further release will try
as much as possible to stay compatible</p>
<p>The Java bindings make use of <a href="https://jna.dev.java.net/">JNA</a>
to expose the C API in a Java friendly way. The bindings are are based on
work initiated by Toth Istvan.</p>
<h2>Getting it</h2>
<p>
@ -19,19 +18,51 @@ as much as possible to stay compatible</p>
<li><a href="http://libvirt.org/sources/java/">libvirt.org HTTP server</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Hourly development snapshots</h2>
<p> Once an hour, an automated snapshot is made from the latest CVS server
source tree. These snapshots should be usable, but we make no guarantees
about their stability: </p>
<h3>Maven</h3>
<p>A maven repository is located at <a href="http://www.libvirt.org/maven2/">http://www.libvirt.org/maven2/</a>
which you can use to include this in your maven projects.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/java/libvirt-java-snapshot.tar.gz">libvirt.org FTP server</a></li>
<li><a href="http://libvirt.org/sources/java/libvirt-java-snapshot.tar.gz">libvirt.org HTTP server</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>GIT source repository</h2>
<p> The Java bindings code source is now maintained in a <a
href="http://git-scm.com/">git</a> repository available on
<a href="http://libvirt.org/git/">libvirt.org</a>:
</p>
<pre>
git clone git://libvirt.org/libvirt-java.git
</pre>
<p>
It can also be browsed at
</p>
<pre>
<h2>CVS repository access</h2>
<a href="http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt-java.git;a=summary">http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt-java.git;a=summary</a>
</pre>
<p> The master source repository uses <a
<p></p>
<h2>GIT repository mirror</h2>
<p>
The source code is also mirrored on <a href="http://www.gitorious.org">gitorious</a>
to aid in public development. You clone the repo with
</p>
<pre>
git clone git://gitorious.org/libvirt/libvirt-java.git
</pre>
<p>
It can also be browsed at
</p>
<pre>
<a href="http://gitorious.org/libvirt/libvirt-java">http://gitorious.org/libvirt/libvirt-java</a>
</pre>
<p></p>
<h2>CVS repository access (Deprecated)</h2>
<p> The old source repository uses <a
href="http://ximbiot.com/cvs/cvshome/docs/">CVS</a> and anonymous access
is provided. Prior to accessing the server is it necessary to authenticate
using the password <code>anoncvs</code>. This can be accomplished with
@ -47,54 +78,24 @@ the <code>cvs login</code> command:
</p>
<pre>
# cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@libvirt.org:2401/data/cvs co libvirt-java
</pre>
<p>
The libvirt-java build process uses GNU autotools, so after obtaining a checkout
it is necessary to generate the configure script and Makefile.in templates
using the <code>autogen.sh</code> command. As an example, to do a complete
build and install it into your home directory run:
</p>
<pre>
./autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME/usr
make
make install
</pre>
<p>Other build system are not currently available but as usual we take patches
(Eclipse/ant/...) would be welcome !</p>
<p> currently libvirt-java requires a version of libvirt &gt;= 0.4.0 to be
installed as well as the associated libvirt development files/package. It
should compile with any java implementation &gt;= 1.5, the bindings uses
the enum construct which appeared only in that version.</p>
<p>Libvirt-java bindings development occurs on the same mailing-list as
the normal libvirt work see <a href="contact.html">the associated contact
page</a></p>
<h2>GIT repository mirror</h2>
<p>
The CVS source repository is also mirrored using GIT, and is available
for anonymous access via:
</p>
<pre>
git clone git://git.et.redhat.com/libvirt-java
</pre>
<p>
It can also be browsed at
</p>
<p></p>
<h2>Building</h2>
<p>The code is built using ant, and assumes that you have the jna jar installed. Once you have downloaded
the code you can build the code with</p>
<pre>
<a href="http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libvirt-java.git;a=summary">http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libvirt-java.git;a=summary</a>
% cd libvirt-java
% ant build
</pre>
<h2>Content</h2>
<p>The bindings are articulated around a few
classes in the <code>org/libvirt</code> namespace, notably the
classes in the <code>org/libvirt</code> package, notably the
<code>Connect</code>, <code>Domain</code> and <code>Network</code>
ones. Functions in the <a href="html/libvirt-libvirt.html">C API</a>
taking <code>virConnectPtr</code>, <code>virDomainPtr</code> or
@ -112,13 +113,13 @@ lower case, for example the C functions:</p>
</p>
<p>become</p>
<p>
<code>virConn::numOfDomains()</code>
<code>virConn.numOfDomains()</code>
</p>
<p>
<code>virDomain::setMaxMemory(long memory)</code>
<code>virDomain.setMaxMemory(long memory)</code>
</p>
<p> There is of course some functions where the mapping is less direct
and using extra classes to map complex arguments. The <a href="http://libvirt.org/org/libvirt/package-summary.html">Javadoc</a> is available online or as
and using extra classes to map complex arguments. The <a href="http://libvirt.org/sources/java/javadoc">Javadoc</a> is available online or as
part of a separate libvirt-java-javadoc package.</p>
<p>So let's look at a simple example inspired from the
<code>test.java</code> test found in <code>src</code> in the source tree:</p>
@ -147,7 +148,7 @@ public class minitest {
<p>There is not much to comment about it, it really is a straight mapping
from the C API, the only points to notice are:</p>
<ul>
<li>the import of the modules in the <code><span style="color: #0071FF; background-color: #FFFFFF">org.libvirt</span></code> namespace</li>
<li>the import of the modules in the <code><span style="color: #0071FF; background-color: #FFFFFF">org.libvirt</span></code> package</li>
<li>getting a connection to the hypervisor, in that case using the
readonly access to the default test hypervisor.</li>
<li>getting an object representing the test domain using <span style="color: #007F00; background-color: #FFFFFF">lookupByName</span></li>