Hello,
I know, this post is really old. But it fits my needs, so I explain here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8BF ==> some other soft than the one from Adobe uses this format.
Why is it interesting for me? I don't like the idea to install Vista just to read my RAW files.
Adobe Camera Raw is a plugin (8bf file, so) which does this job really fine.
With a a nice GUI, i have everything I need to have only one software to work on my pictures.
For me, it would be a very good feature, but I don't know if the code associated to this feature can be public.