Since last stable vSphere 5.5 release of VI JAVA open source project , for more than 15+ months there was not any update on VI java, no any questions on the community were getting answered. There was lot of uncertainty among VI JAVA users on the future of the VI JAVA, discussions were picking up among VI JAVA on how to mitigate the impact if VI JAVA becomes dead and Michael Rice came to the rescue and puts the end to this speculation. He forked the VI JAVA project into YAVI JAVA (Yet Another VI JAVA) in order to give new life to this project which is for sure asset to many VMware users. I really appreciate the great proactive work done by Michael, YAVI JAVA is result of Machael’s dedication & passion for contributing to open source community. I am sure so many VI JAVA users have reason to celebrate this. I would like to thank other contributors as well. At the same time we just can not forget awesome work done by Steve Jin by leading VI JAVA project for several past releases. YAVI JAVA now available on GIT HUB and community contribution is getting increased. I would recommend all of you to spread the word about this project, start contributing, using and help in making this project a great success. Without community contribution, no open source project can become great. Along with supporting VMware vSphere 6.0, there are several new features added to YAVI JAVA, great thing about this project is: your old projects those developed using VI JAVA will work just fine. how cool it is!

Below are some of important hyperlinks about YAVI JAVA links, releases, tutorials, samples etc.

1. YAVI JAVA website

2. GIT HUB repository

3. Basic tutorials

4. All the releases of YAVI JAVA

5. All the Samples : Do not worry as I specified all these samples will just work fine on YAVI JAVA as well. Please stay tuned for my blogs on sample wrt to new APIs introduced in vSphere 6.0

Please do stay tuned for step by step getting started guide on YAVI JAVA.

Vikas Shitole

Vikas Shitole is a Senior Tech Lead at VMware by Broadcom, VCF division, India, where he leads system test efforts—including scale, stress, and resiliency testing—and drives product quality across VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), Broadcom’s flagship private cloud platform.
He is an AI and Kubernetes enthusiast, and is passionate about VMware customers and automation around vSphere and VCF. Vikas has been honored as a vExpert for 12 consecutive years (2014–2025) for his sustained technical contributions and community leadership.

He is the author of two VMware Flings, holds multiple industry certifications, and is one of the top contributors to the VMware API Sample Exchange, where his automation scripts have been downloaded over 50,000 times.

Vikas has shared his expertise as a speaker at international conferences such as VMworld Europe and VMworld USA, and was selected as an official VMworld 2018 blogger. He also served as lead technical reviewer for the Packt-published books vSphere Design and VMware Virtual SAN Essentials.

Beyond tech, Vikas is a dedicated cricketer, cycling enthusiast, and a lifelong learner in fitness and nutrition, with the personal goal of completing an Ironman 70.3