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| 7 | <chapter id="VirtualBoxAPI">
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| 8 |
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| 9 | <title>&product-name; Programming Interfaces</title>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <para>
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| 12 | &product-name; comes with comprehensive support for third-party
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| 13 | developers. The so-called <emphasis>Main API</emphasis> of
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| 14 | &product-name; exposes the entire feature set of the virtualization
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| 15 | engine. It is completely documented and available to anyone who
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| 16 | wishes to control &product-name; programmatically.
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| 17 | </para>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <para>
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| 20 | The Main API is made available to C++ clients through COM on Windows
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| 21 | hosts or XPCOM on other hosts. Bridges also exist for SOAP, Java and
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| 22 | Python.
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| 23 | </para>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <para>
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| 26 | All programming information such as documentation, reference
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| 27 | information, header and other interface files, as well as samples
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| 28 | have been split out to a separate <emphasis role="bold">Software
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| 29 | Development Kit (SDK)</emphasis>. The SDK is available for download
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| 30 | from
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| 31 | <ulink url="http://www.virtualbox.org" />.
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| 32 | In particular, the SDK comes with a Programming Guide and Reference
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| 33 | manual in PDF format. This manual contains, among other things, the
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| 34 | information that was previously in this chapter of the User Manual.
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| 35 | </para>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | </chapter>
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