VMware Labs released a new Fling called SilverLining – A vCloud Director 5.1 SDK for JavaScript. The download is available as tar.gz package and the total size is about 6MB.

Quote taken from the Fling page:

SilverLining provides a vCloud Director 5.1 SDK for Javascript. This allows you to build a simplified interface for vCloud Director that works from any modern web-browser that supports HTML5, CSS and Javascript. To demonstrate, there is a reference implementation included which one could use to build their own custom UI.

Key Features

• A flexible vCloud Director 5.1 SDK for JavaScript implemented using vCloud API
• A reference implementation with a responsive UI done in HTML5, CSS and JavaScript
• Use of metadata feature to enhance the UI with custom attributes on templates and vApps
• Supports local storage in HTML5 to support offline mode
• Notifications system to support long running operations
• Separation of form and content of the backend processes from UI updates
• Easy install script

Requirements

SilverLining requires a running instance of vCloud Director 5.1 to be able to run against its API. Access to SilverLining is through a standard browser that supports HTML5 and CSS3.