Browser - Chromium Embedded Framework
Browser - Chromium Embedded Framework
The Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) is a simple framework for embedding Chromium-based browsers in other applications. CEF is a BSD-licensed open source project founded by Marshall Greenblatt in 2008 and based on the Google Chromium project. Unlike the Chromium project itself, which focuses mainly on Google Chrome application development, CEF focuses on facilitating embedded browser use cases in third-party applications. CEF insulates the user from the underlying Chromium and Blink code complexity by offering production-quality stable APIs, release branches tracking specific Chromium releases, and binary distributions. Most features in CEF have default implementations that provide rich functionality while requiring little or no integration work from the user. There are currently over 100 million installed instances of CEF around the world embedded in products from a wide range of companies and industries. A partial list of companies and products using CEF is available on the CEF Wikipedia page. Some use cases for CEF include:
Embedding an HTML5-compliant Web browser control in an existing native application.
Creating a light-weight native “shell” application that hosts a user interface developed primarily using Web technologies.
Rendering Web content “off-screen” in applications that have their own custom drawing frameworks.
Acting as a host for automated testing of existing Web properties and applications.