REST services with WCF

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In one of our products we extensively use WCF services. Since we are looking to port the product to other platforms(Android, web...) I started to look at implementing REST services with .NET. I found quite few APIs - The WCF REST starter kit, the WCF web api, and finally asp.net web api. The starter kit is no longer supported. It seems that I should use the asp.net web api. But I am not sure if the asp.net web api is something new or is just renamed and extended WCF web api. Does knowledge about WCF web api helps you to use the new asp.net web api or not? Another thing I am not sure about is how should the two-way communication be handled in the web api. In WCF I used the TCP binding which enabled you to call a method on a client from the server. In asmx web services I handled that with a client which opened a connection to the server and the server replied when the data for that client was available. Then the connection was re-opened. Is that a valid approach when using the new web api?

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Posted 27-Feb-12 7:25am

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Updated 27-Feb-12 13:48pm

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Ganesan Senthilvel · Answer 1 · 2012-02-27T14:57:00

Recommended WCF REST service development, is using WCF Web API. ASP.NET Web API released with ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta. The WCF Web API and WCF support for jQuery content on this site wll removed by the end of 2012.

WCF Web API has features like:
HttpClient
Out of the box support for XML, JSON and OData
Typeless JSON support
Plug in any format / media type
IQueryable support
Simple code-based configuration model
Support for HTTP file upload and MIME-based batching
Integrated Web API test client