Well, we live in a world full of ReST so you might as well get used to it - and while you're at it you might as well attempt to use some crowd-sourced/adopted standard. The cool thing about ReST is that it's so much simpler than previous concepts (SOAP, for instance) that many low-level devs have simply rolled their own C++ framework. As awesome as your framework is and as much work as you have poured into it - it's unique – and that not good for a framework. Especially when others are involved in development. Fortunately for us lowly C++ developers we NOW have the option to roll-your-own or ADOPT:

"The C++ REST SDK (codename "Casablanca") is a Microsoft project for cloud-based client-server communication in native code using a modern asynchronous C++ API design. This project allows C++ developers to take advantage of the radical shift in software architecture that cloud computing represents."

Not a fan of the built in and inflexible? We'll you're in luck because those "roll-your-own" guys have been hard at work creating some pretty cool solutions. Check out Corvusoft's Restbed for instance:

For additional information:

• MSDN: Bringing RESTful Services to C++ Developers.
• C++ REST SDK codename "Casablanca"

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