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    <p>I spent about two weeks prototyping a RESTful service using WCF with the REST starter kit, and found that it was extremely difficult to get to grips with, incredibly unintuitive, and made a lot of things that should be simple really quite difficult. It really feels like they're trying to bolt an HTTP emulation layer on top of a layer that's designed to abstract away HTTP and it's messy as a result.</p> <p>For reference, the prototype included implementing CRUD functionality, the <code>X-HTTP-Method-Override</code> header, custom translation of any errors into a standard error block, support for both XML and JSON as both input and output formats, authentication and authorization of the caller, and dependency injection of any internal services into the outward-facing services.</p> <p>I then spent a week or so prototyping the same API using ASP.NET MVC and found it much simpler to get to grips with, intuitive to extend, and nothing in the above list was difficult (I was stumped on the header for a while, but <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/467535/is-it-possible-to-implement-x-http-method-override-in-asp-net-mvc/490733#490733">the solution turned out to only be 10 lines of code or so</a>). ASP.NET MVC is fairly close to the underlying HTTP protocol and as such makes it easy to implement a RESTful API which embraces it.</p> <p>So my personal recommendation (and the one my company has gone with on the basis of my research) is to steer well clear of WCF for RESTful services and go with ASP.NET MVC.</p>
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