From the point of view of the user interface, most web applications can be thought of simply as CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update & Delete) operations on documents. In the diagram below, the form is being used to initially display a Customer and Order and then to update them. If you think in REST terms, the form is a View Resource that composes multiple Entity Resources (in this case a Customer Resource and an Order Resource), displays their current state and allows you to update them. 
provides a very flexible and powerful mechanism for interacting with documents (and the web in general). You can download source code and forms for the discussion below. We strongly recommend that you download the example, study it and use it as a template for integrating with your own web applications. |