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@section quickstart Quickstart
 
To get down to coding really quickly, create an object of class
HBCI::API and follow the instructions provided there (or in C: @ref
HBCI_API). 

More general information can also be found in the pages @ref
designpage and @ref pluginpage.
 
@section hbci What is HBCI

%HBCI - <b>H</b>ome<b>B</b>anking <b>C</b>omputer <b>I</b>nterface

%HBCI is a bank-independent homebanking standard, developed by the
german <a href="http://www.hbci-zka.de/">ZKA ("Zentraler
Kredit-Ausschuss"</a>, German Central Banking Committe).
It is a publicly available protocol specification that defines the
communication between homebanking applications and the credit
institutes' servers.

@section openhbci What is OpenHBCI

OpenHBCI is a client-side implementation of the %HBCI
specification. That means, you can use OpenHCBI in a homebanking
application to connect to and talk to any %HBCI-capable bank server.

OpenHBCI provides an object oriented library to give you easy access
to credit institutes that support the %HBCI-standard. The library is
written in C++;  C wrappers are provided as well.  OpenHBCI hides
all the protocol-stuff, the encryption, the communication... so that
developers of homebanking-software can concentrate on their
application without having to read about <i>700</i> pages of
specification.

@section not What is OpenHBCI not

<ul>

<li>OpenHBCI <i>is not a homebanking application</i>, instead it is
a <i>library</i> offering homebanking functionality. 
If you need a homebanking application, go to 
<a href="http://aqmoney.sourceforge.net">AqMoney</a> 
which offers basic command-line homebanking, or check out the list 
of applications <a
href="http://openhbci.sourceforge.net/links.html">on the OpenHBCI
website</a>.
</li>

<li>OpenHBCI <i>is not a server-side implementation</i> of %HBCI</li>

<li>OpenHBCI <i>is no eCash or online payment utility</i>. That is not
the scope of the %HBCI specification.</li> </ul>

@section authors Authors

Fabian Kaiser &lt;<a
href="mailto:fabian.kaiser@gmx.de">fabian.kaiser@gmx.de</a>&gt;,
Martin Preu&szlig; &lt;<a
href="mailto:martin@aquamaniac.de">martin@aquamaniac.de</a>&gt;,
Christian Stimming &lt;<a
href="mailto:stimming@tuhh.de">stimming@tuhh.de</a>&gt;
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