The Virtual Infrastructure Java API was initially created by Steve JIN from VMware EcoSystem Engineering with strong support/help from Sujit Panikatt, Marianna Tessel, Larry Jocobs, Jeff Hu, Carter Shanklin, Pablo Roesch, John Huang, Steve Herrod, Beng-Hong Lim, Colleen Lam, Krystia Przepiorski, Tom Elloit and many other VMware colleagues.

It's open sourced at sourceforge.net under BSD license in May 2008. It's now in version 2.0. We expect more people to contribute this project along the way.