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I am a .NET developer who is looking into the OSS world for a REST framework similar to Microsoft's Web Api. I'll be starting a personal project soon and need to develop both a web site and an API with the API coming first.

I've ruled out Ruby on Rails just because I feel that with my background in C#, I can get up to speed quickly with either a Java or PHP based framework. So far I've looked at Slim (PHP) and JAX-RS and Jersey (Java).

Would I want to consider any others? My API will be private at first with a public one on the roadmap. I'll be hosting the API on Heroku or some cloud based service.

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PHP doesn't look anything like C#. For Java, this framework looks pretty good. – Robert Harvey Nov 21 '12 at 20:29
Jersey is good. But C# or no, I think you'll go faster with Ruby and Rails than you will with Java, simply because the code volume will be considerably smaller. – kevin cline Nov 21 '12 at 22:30

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I don't have any production experience with it, but check out Service Stack: http://www.servicestack.net/

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That's for .NET, and the OP seems to want to move away from .NET. Although using his existing C# skills would be very cool, assuming he's willing to use Mono. – Robert Harvey Nov 21 '12 at 21:31
I am not sure if he wants to move away from C#/.NET or just use OSS frameworks and libraries. – Tim Lowes Nov 21 '12 at 21:36

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