Techniques, systems, apparatus and computer-program products are disclosed for developing a web-hosted shared database system with improved user interface and reduced programming. In one aspect, using a web application development framework includes declaratively specifying a web application's pages using page configurations. The framework can automatically coordinate page state with the state of a database server and an applications server, so that the specified page is first rendered and then one or more portions of the page can be updated in response to a server data change, Also, programs that are executed when a request is issued are declaratively specified using program configurations. Either or both of the page configurations and the program configurations can be implemented by access to a unified application state virtual database. Further, the unified application state virtual database can include the persistent database of the application and transient memory-based data, such as session and page data.
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