ASP.Net Web API is a lightweight framework used for building stateless HTTP services. You can use Web API to design and implement RESTful services that run on HTTP. REST is an architectural style — a ...

The controller handles incoming requests and puts any data the client needs into a component called a model. When the controller's work is done, the model is passed to a view component for rendering.

I'm interested to hear discussion on patterns for multi-tier applications having a central (in-house, internal network) datadatabase, but multiple UI clients across multiple platforms (HTML5, Android, ...