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<title>&product-name; Programming Interfaces</title>
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&product-name; comes with comprehensive support for third-party
developers. The so-called <emphasis>Main API</emphasis> of
&product-name; exposes the entire feature set of the virtualization
engine. It is completely documented and available to anyone who
wishes to control &product-name; programmatically.
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<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.
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All programming information such as documentation, reference
information, header and other interface files, as well as samples
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from
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manual in PDF format. This manual contains, among other things, the
information that was previously in this chapter of the User Manual.
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