I have read Life above the Service Tier a few times now. Its a very good paper, one that really changes your perspective, but I wish it was better. If you work on web applications and you haven’t read this paper I recommend that you go read it now — but do come back.

I agree with the overall reasoning and the conclusion.

So one obvious way to correct the thin client architecture is to implement a true MVC framework on the client side… That means that all “Presentation Flows” must occur within the currently ­loaded web page… So one workable model is the Single Page Application (SPA).

First let me get some minor complaints out of the way.

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