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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="VirtualBoxAPI">
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| 4 | <title><ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> Programming Interfaces</title>
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>
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| 8 | <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> comes with comprehensive support for third-party
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| 9 | developers. The so-called <i>Main API</i> of
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| 10 | <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> exposes the entire feature set of the virtualization
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| 11 | engine. It is completely documented and available to anyone who
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| 12 | wishes to control <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> programmatically.
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| 13 | </p>
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| 14 | <p>
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| 15 | The Main API is made available to C++ clients through COM on Windows
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| 16 | hosts or XPCOM on other hosts. Bridges also exist for SOAP, Java and
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| 17 | Python.
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| 18 | </p>
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| 19 | <p>
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| 20 | All programming information such as documentation, reference
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| 21 | information, header and other interface files, as well as samples
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| 22 | have been split out to a separate <b outputclass="bold">Software
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| 23 | Development Kit (SDK)</b>. The SDK is available for download
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| 24 | from
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| 25 | <ph>http://www.alldomusa.eu.org</ph>.
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| 26 | In particular, the SDK comes with a Programming Guide and Reference
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| 27 | manual in PDF format. This manual contains, among other things, the
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| 28 | information that was previously in this chapter of the User Manual.
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| 29 | </p>
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| 30 | </body>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | </topic>
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