Windows Server AppFabric provides a premier environment for hosting your WCF services whether you are developing traditional SOAP services or REST services. As Windows Server AppFabric is built on top of IIS 7 and Windows Process Activation Services (WAS), you get all of the benefits of this hosting platform plus a number of features specific to working with WCF services.
As with working with traditional SOAP WCF services, Windows Server AppFabric provides an intuitive user experience that allows you to manage common settings such as certificate-based security, monitoring and tracing configuration, enabling your REST service to start automatically, as well as the ability to configure throttling to ensure that demand can keep pace with available resources.
In addition, depending on the manner in which you choose to configure your WCF REST service with regard to URIs, it is possible to manage your RESTful WCF service(s) in a manner that is very close to what you would...