User`s guide

About the VMware vCloud API 1
The VMware vCloud API provides support for developers who are building interactive clients of
VMware vCloud Director using a RESTful application development style.
vCloud API clients and vCloud Director servers communicate over HTTP, exchanging representations of
vCloud objects. These representations take the form of XML elements. You use HTTP GET requests to retrieve
the current representation of an object, HTTP POST and PUT requests to create or modify an object, and HTTP
DELETE requests to delete an object.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Object Taxonomy,” on page 8
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“Objects, References, and Representations,” on page 10
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“Links and Link Relations,” on page 10
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“Client Workflow Overview,” on page 14
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“About the Schema Reference,” on page 17
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