What Is Owin Self Host in Web Api

Open Web Interface for . NET (OWIN) defines an abstraction between . NET web servers and web applications. OWIN decouples the web application from the server, which makes OWIN ideal for self-hosting a web application in your own process, outside of IIS.

Can we self host Web API?

You can self-host a web API in your own host process. New applications should use OWIN to self-host Web API. See Use OWIN to Self-Host ASP.NET Web API 2.

What is self hosted service?

In this article, we will explain self-hosting a service using a Windows console application. This is referred to as a self hosting WCF service, the exact meaning of Self Hosted is that it hosts the service in an application that could be a Console Application or Windows Forms and so on.