In sum, referring back to RQ4, our analysis resulted in a mixed
picture. On the one hand VirtualBox shows no particular arrangements made in order to maintain its web API more or less stable than any other statically linked API, whereas XBMC contains
a purpose-built web API with its own versioning and humanreadable documentation. As a result, the clients under analysis also
deal with their web API’s differently (albeit neither with an ideal
approach). The phpVirtualBox client simply releases one client version per web API version and Android XBMC keeps up with the
latest version of the web API, disregarding backwards compatibility