This Java Client Library can be used to simplify interactions with the [IBM Watson IoT Platform] (https://internetofthings.ibmcloud.com). The documentation is divided into following sections:

• The [Device section] (https://github.com/ibm-messaging/iot-java/blob/master/docs/java_cli_for_devices.rst) contains information on how devices publish events and handle commands using the Java ibmiotf Client Library.
• The [Managed Device section] (https://github.com/ibm-messaging/iot-java/blob/master/docs/java_cli_for_manageddevice.rst) contains information on how devices can connect to the Watson IoT Platform Device Management service using Java ibmiotf Client Library and perform device management operations like firmware update, location update, and diagnostics update.
• The [Gateway section] (https://github.com/ibm-messaging/iot-java/blob/master/docs/java_cli_for_gateway.rst) contains information on how gateways publish events and handle commands for itself and for the attached devices using the Java ibmiotf Client Library.
• The [Gateway Management section] (https://github.com/ibm-messaging/iot-java/blob/master/docs/java_cli_for_managedgateway.rst) contains information on how to connect the gateway as Managed Gateway to IBM Watson IoT Platform and manage the attached devices.
• The [Application section] (https://github.com/ibm-messaging/iot-java/blob/master/docs/java_cli_for_applications.rst) details how applications can use the Java ibmiotf Client Library to interact with devices.
• The [API section] (https://github.com/ibm-messaging/iot-java/blob/master/docs/java_cli_for_api.rst) contains information on how applications can use the Java ibmiotf Client Library to interact with the organization in the Watson IoT Platform through ReST APIs

This Java Client Library requires following version of Java,

• [Java 7] (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7-downloads-1880260.html)
• [Java 8] (https://java.com/en/download/)

The POM file present in the library helps one to build the library using maven. It downloads all the dependencies from the maven central repository and builds the iot-java library.

Also, the library can be improted to eclipse as maven project and proceed with the development.

We are working on to push the library artifact to maven, and we will update once its done.

The latest version of the client library is available [here] (https://github.com/ibm-messaging/iot-java/releases/latest) to download.

The zip module contains the following files,

• com.ibm.iotf.client-.jar - Client library that enables one to talk to Watson IoT Platform Connect.
• com.ibm.iotf.samples-.jar - Contains samples.
• DMDeviceSample.properties - Properties file used to configure the list of options required to connect to Watson IoT Platform Connect and perform device management operations.
• device.prop - Properties file to specify connectivity information when DeviceClient is used
• lib - Contains all dependent libraries
• javadoc - Contains the client library documentation

In order to search & find the samples easily, we moved the samples to corresponding repositories and

• [Device samples] (https://github.com/ibm-messaging/iot-device-samples) - Repository contains all device (also device management) related samples in different programming languages. Information and instructions regarding the use of these samples can be found in their respective directories.
• [Gateway Samples] (https://github.com/ibm-messaging/iot-gateway-samples) - Repository contains all Gateway (also gateway management) related samples in different programming languages.
• [Application samples] (https://github.com/ibm-messaging/iot-application-samples) - Repository contains samples for developing the application(s) in IBM Watson Internet of Things Platform in different languages.
• [Watson IoT Platfrom API V002 samples] (https://github.com/ibm-messaging/iot-platform-apiv2-samples) - Repository contains samples that interacts with IBM Watson IoT Plaform using the platform API Version 2.
• [Scalable Application samples] (https://github.com/ibm-messaging/iot-scalable-application-samples) - Repository contains sample(s) for building scalable applications, using shared subscription support in IBM Watson IoT Platform.
• [Backup-restore sample] (https://github.com/ibm-messaging/iot-backup-restore-sample) - The sample in the repository shows how to backup the device configuration in Cloudant NoSQL DB and restore the same later.

• [Paho MQTT Java Client] (http://git.eclipse.org/c/paho/org.eclipse.paho.mqtt.java.git/) - provides a client class which enable applications to connect to an MQTT broker
• [google-gson] (https://code.google.com/p/google-gson/) - library for interacting with JSON objects
• [Apache Commons Logging] (http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-logging/download_logging.cgi) - library for logging various informations
• [Apache Commons Codec] (https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-codec/download_codec.cgi) - provides common encoder and decoder functionalities such as Base64
• [Apache Commons Lang] (https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/download_lang.cgi) - provides methods for manipulating core Java classes
• [Apache Commons Net] (https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-net/download_net.cgi) - provides method for client side Internet protocols.
• [Apache Ant] (http://ant.apache.org/) - build tool for automated builds
• [Apache HttpClient] (https://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi) - A HTTP Client library
• [Apache HttpCore] (https://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi) - A HTTP Core library
• [Joda-Time] (http://www.joda.org/joda-time/download.html) - The date and time library for Java

The library is shipped with Eclipse Public License and refer to the [License file] (https://github.com/ibm-messaging/iot-java/blob/master/LICENSE) for more information about the licensing.