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<title>VirtualBox programming interfaces</title>
<para>VirtualBox comes with comprehensive support for third-party
developers. The so-called "Main API" of VirtualBox exposes the entire
feature set of the virtualization engine. It is completely documented and
available to anyone who wishes to control VirtualBox programmatically.
</para>
<para>The Main API is made available to C++ clients through COM (on Windows
hosts) or XPCOM (on other hosts). Bridges also exist for SOAP, Java and
Python.</para>
<para>All programming information (documentation, reference information,
header and other interface files as well as samples) have been split out to
a separate <emphasis role="bold">Software Development Kit (SDK),</emphasis>
which is available for download from <ulink type=""
particular, the SDK comes with a "Programming Guide and Reference" in PDF
format, which contains, among other things, the information that was
previously in this chapter of the User Manual.</para>
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