Building Web Services with Microsoft Azure

Design principles behind the ASP.NET Web API

Now that we understand the intent behind ASP.NET Web API, let's discuss some design principles on which ASP.NET Web API is based:

• Distributed by design: ASP.NET Web API considers HTTP as a first-class citizen and has inherent support for REST. It enables a framework for creating distributed services that leverage HTTP features such as stateless, caching, and compression.
• Russian Doll Model: This is also called the Matryoshka doll model, which refers to a set of wooden dolls of decreasing sizes placed one inside the other. Architecturally, it denotes a recognizable relationship of nested objects (object within an object). The ASP.NET Web API messaging handlers leverage this principle to define the request-response ...