RESTful framework alternatives to WCF

Question

Looking for alternatives to the WCF REST start kit, ideally OSS frameworks.

Anyone got a list?

Cheers

Ollie

Answer 1

ASP.NET MVC is a good alternative when it comes to generating REST XML and JSON feeds.

Answer 2

To build a rest architecture in .net you can use GenericHandlers. You can create a GenericHandler that will receive a HTTP message (POST, GET or..) and return a message of the content-type you specify.

For example I create a generic handler on the url:

http://site/getpeople.ashx?gender=female

And call it with the parmeter gender=female, as above the handler will return the following

<people>

<person>...</person>
...
<people>

And the content type would be text/xml.

This is the simplest way to implement REST web services in .NET

Answer 3

OpenRASTA is the most mature