Abstract: A method for generating and updating a graphical user interface (GUI) includes receiving, at a web server, a request for a web-based application from a web client. The method further includes communicating an initial web page to the web client including instructions for generating a GUI for the application that includes one or more components and communicating support scripts to the web client. In addition, the method includes receiving one or more action events from the web client at the web server indicating one or more user actions associated with the GUI that have occurred at the web client. Furthermore, the method includes generating one or more update events at the web sever based on the received action events and communicating the update events to the web client. The update events instruct the web client to call one or more of the support scripts to update one or more components of the GUI in response to the user actions.