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What is the difference between ASP Net Web API and WCF?
WCF is used for developing SOAP-based services whereas Web API is used for both SOAP-based and RESTful services. WCF does not offer any support for MVC features whereas Web API supports MVC features. WCF supports message queues, message security, duplex communication, transaction whereas Web API doesn’t support.
Is it true that ASP Net Web API has replaced WCF?
It’s a not at all true that ASP.NET Web API has replaced WCF. In fact, it is another way of building non-SOAP based services, i.e., plain XML or JSON string.
What is OData in asp net Web API?
The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a data access protocol for the web. OData provides a uniform way to query and manipulate data sets through CRUD operations (create, read, update, and delete). ASP.NET Web API supports both v3 and v4 of the protocol.
What is the difference between OData and rest?
ODATA is a special kind of REST where we can query data uniformly from URL. REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer which is a resource based architectural style. OData is a web based protocol that defines a set of best practices for building and consuming RESTful web services.
What’s the difference between ASP.NET Web API and WCF?
ASP.net Web API is all about HTTP and REST based GET,POST,PUT,DELETE with well know ASP.net MVC style of programming and JSON returnable; web API is for all the light weight process and pure HTTP based components. For one to go ahead with WCF even for simple or simplest single web service it will bring all the extra baggage.
Why are we not using advanced features of WCF?
We are not using advanced features of WCF. Here is comparison from MSDN: ASP.net Web API is all about HTTP and REST based GET,POST,PUT,DELETE with well know ASP.net MVC style of programming and JSON returnable; web API is for all the light weight process and pure HTTP based components.
Why is ASP.NET Web API so important?
There is no denying that REST-based HTTP services like those created using ASP.NET Web API have become the standard for building web services. These services offer an easy, straightforward approach for web developers building services. Web developers understand HTTP GET and POST and thus adapt well to these types of services.
Is there a problem with hypermedia web APIs?
Developers have a tendency to provide static descriptions of all the supported methods in a service, ranging from formal contracts such as Web Services Description Language (WSDL) in SOAP services to simple documentation in non-hypermedia Web APIs. The main problem with this is that a static API description couples clients heavily to the server.