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<title><ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> Programming Interfaces</title>
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<p><ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> comes with comprehensive support for third-party
developers. The so-called <i>Main API</i> of <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> exposes the
entire feature set of the virtualization engine. It is completely documented and available to anyone who wants to
control <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> programmatically. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>All programming information such as documentation, reference information, header and other interface files, as
well as samples have been split out to a separate <b outputclass="bold">Software Development Kit (SDK)</b>. The
SDK is available for download from <ph>http://www.virtualbox.org</ph>. In particular, the SDK comes with a
Programming Guide and Reference manual in PDF format. This manual contains, among other things, the information
that was previously in this chapter of the User Guide. </p>
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