Does blackberry phone (RIM) provide an API to access their bbm (black berry messsnger ) functionality?

Does the blackberry phone from RIM provide an API that would let a developer access their bbm message content and send and receive messages through that ?

Solution

Yes they do, in a separate BBM SDK

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