Open Web Interface for .NET: Difference between revisions

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{{Short description|Web server interface standard}}

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'''OWIN''' (Open Web Interface for .NET) is a standard for an interface between .NET Web applications and Web servers. It is a community-owned open-source project. Prior to OWIN, Microsoft's [[ASP.NET]] technology was designed on top of [[Internet Information Services|IIS]], and Web applications could not easily be run on another Web server (although note that despite this the Mono community developed several ASP.NET compatible Web servers, such as [[XSP (software)|XSP]]). OWIN aims to decouple the relationship between ASP.NET applications and IIS by defining a standard interface. Developers of Web servers can be sure that, if they implement OWIN correctly, ASP.NET applications will run on their server. Similarly, new [[Web framework]]s could be developed as an alternative to ASP.NET. So long as they target OWIN, they will run on any OWIN compatible Web server, including IIS.

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* [https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetKatana/ Katana Project] at [[GitHub]]

* [http://www.asp.net/aspnet/overview/owin-and-katana/an-overview-of-project-katana Microsoft's overview of Project Katana]

* [http://owinframework.com/ Owin Framework, a community owned alternative to Katana]

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