Project Summary
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.
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 69 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in November, 2008
ending with its most recent commit 6 days ago
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BSD 4-clause (University of California-Specific)
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