OWIN and project Katana

OWIN (Open Web Iterface for .NET) is the new way of developing web applications in the .NET ecosystem. It is a great approach as it offers the flexibility of decoupling the application from the hosting environment itself. This means that as long as we develop a Web application on top of OWIN then we can easily host it outside the standard hosting environment so far which is IIS. A quick example is that by using a specific nuget package. As OWIN is just a specification then we need an implementation of this in each platform we want to support. The implementation for Microsoft’s platform is called Katana.
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