Hi,
I saw that the new sdk is available, so I downloaded it. After realizing that the "Eclipse-Setup.html" which is found in the "docs" subdirectory is out of date (still refers to the virgo server instead of tomcat)
I also downloaded the "Developing Local Plug-ins with vSphere Client SDK - VMWare vSphere 6.7".
I followed the directions in this file, and even got rid of my old sts - and replaced it with the newest Eclipse - so I could match the directions completely.
Starting the tomcat directly using the "startup.bat" script worked as expected, I could login to the remote vCenter and see the inventory.
Then I stopped it and tried to start it within the eclipse - after trying and retrying for a complete day, I have given up.
I got to the Chapter "Configure the Tomcat Server in Your Eclipse IDE" - here you are instructed to add a new server "Apache->Tomcat v8.5" - ok
Then you should set the VMWARE_CFG_DIR to the correct directory - also ok
Then it says "From the Overview Page" you should set values in the "Server Startup Configuration" and "Redeploy Behavior" Panes - these are not available for me in the Server Configuration ...
Instead, you are expected to configure ports 2 for http, and one for SSL - so I set them to 9090 and 9443 respectively.
I then started the tomcat - and it started successfully. But none of the Html Client packages were deployed. I checked out the catalina.bat and saw values for things like ports (http.port, https.port, shutdown.port) etc. are configured here - but do not seem to be confiured when the tomcat is started from eclipse. I added the defines in the runtime environment, but this did not help either.
So it seems to me that this Chapter is not complete - or does not match together with the newest version of eclipse. Could you please tell me how to get the tomcat server to pickup the vpshere packages?
I checked the logs - in "access"-> localhost_acess_log.xxx.txt I see:
120.0.0.1 ... "GET / HTTP1.1" 404 -- http-nio-127.0.0.1-9090-exec 1 0
The catalina.log looks very much like the one written when the startup.bat is called. I could find no error.
They other logs (also the virgo log) are missing or have no content.
thanks for the help
Cathy