Windows Azure SDK for Java

The SDK allows developers to use some of Azure's features in creating cloud-based apps.

Other Windows Azure SDKs are also available for:

PHP

Python

What is new in this release:

• New Azure Resource Manager Storage Management library
• Fix a few bugs

What is new in version 0.7.0:

• Refresh client wrappers to latest specifications.

What is new in version 0.6.0:

• Multiple fixes.

What is new in version 0.5.0:

• Added multiple service management modules.
• Split the SDK into multiple sub-modules.

What is new in version 0.4.6:

• Allow users to set the client-request-id for better tracking/debugging of storage requests. This is set on the OperationContext.
• Prevent a potential arithmetic overflow while calculating the exponential retry back-off interval in storage.
• Retry on IOException even when it is wrapped within an XMLStreamException in storage.
• Throw a more meaningful exception when connection is reset while parsing a request response in storage.

What is new in version 0.4.5:

• Added support for managing affinity groups.
• Added support for Media Services job notification.

What is new in version 0.4.4:

• Windows Azure China environment support
• Service Bus metadata support updated to the latest version
• Rich Odata entity query support for Service Bus Queue/Topic/Subscription
• Added support for Service Bus message forwarding
• Added support for Service Bus message count details
• Made sure the response stream is drained to prevent socket exhaustion in Storage
• Added support for all flavors of SharedKey and SharedKeyLite message signing through AuthenticationScheme property on client classes in Storage

What is new in version 0.4.3:

• Added support for updating existing Queue/Topic/Subscription for Service Bus.
• Added support for message lock renewal to support long running message processing for Service Bus.
• Added new properties to Queue/Topic/Subscription/Rule for Service Bus.
• Added support for rebinding content key for Media Services.

What is new in version 0.4.1:

• Added "Azure-SDK-For-Java/<version>" To User-Agent HTTP header
• Added connection string support for Service Bus
• Added new methods to break lease for Storage Blob which doesn't require a lease id and returns the result as an object. Deprecated the old breakLease() methods.
• Added a new method to get the historical events for Media Services
• Fixed Storage Table encoding issue for special characters
• BlobOutputStream now commits block list using LATEST instead of UNCOMMITTED
• Added RequestResult to StorageEvents
• Fixed issue when accessing OperationContext RequestResults
• Fixed the return value of BlobInputStream.read
• Fixed CloudPageBlob.downloadPageRanges to retrieve the blob length
• Fixed MD5 validation in BlobInputStream
• Return ETag in TableResult not only for Insert but also for other operations

What is new in version 0.4.0:

• Added support for Windows Azure Media Services.
• Updated dependencies to non-beta stable versions.
• Added a Sending Request Event to OperationContext in Storage Client code.
• Fixed a bug in the STorage client in blob download resume for blobs greater than 2GB.

Requirements:

• Java 1.6 or higher
• Apache Maven