http://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/owin-and-katana/an-overview-of-project-katana
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A very good white paper explaining OWIN and the Katana Project. It begins to be very easy to have a lightweight web server embedded in our own process (console applications, windows services, etc). It opens a lot of possibilities. I'm dirtying my hands, trying to host an AngularJS application inside a Windows Service.