<s>
The	O
Chromium	B-Language
Embedded	I-Language
Framework	I-Language
(	O
CEF	O
)	O
is	O
an	O
open-source	B-Application
software	I-Application
framework	B-Architecture
for	O
embedding	O
a	O
Chromium	B-Language
web	I-Language
browser	I-Language
within	O
another	O
application	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
enables	O
developers	B-Application
to	O
add	O
web	O
browsing	O
functionality	O
to	O
their	O
application	B-Application
,	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
the	O
ability	O
to	O
use	O
HTML	B-Language
,	O
CSS	B-Language
,	O
and	O
JavaScript	B-Language
to	O
create	O
the	O
application	B-Application
's	O
user	B-Application
interface	I-Application
(	O
or	O
just	O
portions	O
of	O
it	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
CEF	O
runs	O
on	O
Linux	B-Application
,	O
macOS	B-Application
,	O
and	O
Windows	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
has	O
many	O
language	B-Application
bindings	I-Application
including	O
C	B-Language
,	O
C++	B-Language
,	O
Go	B-Application
,	O
Java	B-Language
,	O
and	O
Python	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
are	O
two	O
versions	O
of	O
Chromium	B-Language
Embedded	I-Language
Framework	I-Language
:	O
CEF	O
1	O
and	O
CEF	O
3	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Development	O
of	O
CEF	O
2	O
was	O
abandoned	O
after	O
the	O
appearance	O
of	O
the	O
Chromium	B-Language
Content	O
API	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
CEF	O
1	O
is	O
a	O
single-process	O
implementation	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
Chromium	B-Language
WebKit	O
API	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
CEF	O
3	O
is	O
a	O
multi-process	O
implementation	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
Chromium	B-Language
Content	O
API	O
and	O
has	O
performance	O
similar	O
to	O
Google	O
Chrome	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
uses	O
asynchronous	O
messaging	O
to	O
communicate	O
between	O
the	O
main	O
application	B-Application
process	O
and	O
one	O
or	O
more	O
render	O
processes	O
(	O
Blink	B-Language
+	O
V8	B-Language
JavaScript	I-Language
engine	I-Language
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
March	O
16	O
,	O
2019	O
,	O
the	O
CEF	O
version	O
numbering	O
changed	O
with	O
the	O
release	O
of	O
CEF	O
73.1.3	O
+g46cf800+	O
chromium-73.0.3683.75	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Both	O
of	O
these	O
releases	O
were	O
based	O
on	O
Chromium	B-Language
73.0.3683.75	O
,	O
however	O
the	O
new	O
version	O
numbering	O
has	O
the	O
major	O
number	O
the	O
same	O
as	O
the	O
Chromium	B-Language
major	O
version	O
number	O
it	O
is	O
based	O
on	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
CEF	O
comes	O
with	O
a	O
sample	O
application	B-Application
called	O
CefClient	O
that	O
is	O
written	O
in	O
C++	B-Language
using	O
WinAPI	B-Library
,	O
Cocoa	B-Operating_System
,	O
or	O
GTK	B-Application
(	O
depending	O
on	O
the	O
platform	O
)	O
and	O
contains	O
demos	O
of	O
various	O
features	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Newer	O
versions	O
include	O
a	O
sample	O
application	B-Application
called	O
CefSimple	O
that	O
,	O
along	O
with	O
an	O
accompanying	O
tutorial	O
,	O
show	O
how	O
to	O
create	O
a	O
simple	O
application	B-Application
using	O
CEF	O
3	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
base	O
CEF	O
framework	B-Architecture
includes	O
support	O
for	O
the	O
C	B-Language
and	O
C++	B-Language
programming	I-Language
languages	I-Language
,	O
but	O
there	O
are	O
external	O
projects	O
that	O
provide	O
bindings	O
for	O
other	O
languages	O
:	O
</s>
<s>
Autodesk	B-Device
Inventor	I-Device
–	O
3D	O
design	O
tool	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
–	O
provide	O
a	O
way	O
for	O
developing	O
native	O
desktop	O
GUI	O
applications	O
using	O
web	O
technologies	O
such	O
as	O
PHP	O
,	O
HTML5	O
,	O
JavaScript	B-Language
and	O
SQLite	O
.	O
</s>
