.NET Restful WCF Http Web Service for use w/ ASP.NET MVC3 and anything else

Question

I am building a big ASP.NET MVC3 web site. I am going to hit a big backend database and have lots of webservices. I plan on exposing the webservices publicly down the line as an restful API that will consume/return JSON or XML.

Would it be best to keep my webservices as a completely seperate project and should I use pure WCF for them?

Thanks for any advice.

Answer 1

I would certainly consider keeping the Services project separate from the Web Site Project.

As for which framework to use I would check out the WCF HTTP project , OpenRasta , or straight .NET MVC.

Answer 2

I would check out this video by Juval: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2010/ARC206