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...you can use objects that live on more than one server and even more than one domain, because all you really need is its URI...

- Jason Kolb

Jason's talking about programming client-side using server-side resources. It's interesting exploratory stuff, continuing from his Network-Oriented Architecture post. In that earlier post he gets mighty close to RPC (which is a lousy fit with web architecture), but I think he's pulled back from the brink - yup, resources (and their descriptions) are the distributed objects of the web.

Not sure, there may be crossover between Jason's Perfect Programming and the material Lee's recently posted - Using RDF on the Web : A Vision, in which he describes an app architecture which seems like it might involve browser-based mashup/processing, but also with data being passed back to the server. Lee's crammed in a lot of ideas, I need to re-read a few times & spend some time thinking to grok all this. (Or look at some pictures and/or demo app, not hinting like...). He flags SPARQL CONSTRUCT (which gets my +1, it does seem something of a game-changer) and the fact that he has JavaScript doing most of the work seems a mindshare-grabber...

See also : SPARQL Calendar Demo, Web Clipboard Demo