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A Silverlight 4 client needs to show read-only data. This data will come from an existing third-party product (an API exposed as web services or simply a dll).

What's the simplest way to expose this data from the server so the SL client can consume it. I will have a service wrapper around the third-party API, however, I'm not sure what technology to use for this wrapper. I believe it will be one of the following technologies:

WCF RIA Services, WCF Data Services, or Plain WCF Services

Since there's no database model involved it seems RIA Services may not be necessary, or all that helpful? Data Services seems to be more flexible and I'm leaning towards that.