Abstract: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for identifying relevant information to cache. A computer system accesses a marked data entity that has been marked for caching at a client computer system. The marked data entry is marked for caching based on the relevance of the marked data entity from the perspective of a requested data entity. The computer system identifies relationships from the marked data entity to one or more other data entities. The computer system selects, from among the identified relationships, any relationships that satisfy a relevance threshold from the perspective of the requested data entity. The computer system identifies, from among the one or more other data entities, any of the other data entities that correspond to a selected relationship satisfying the relevance threshold. The computer system marks the identified other data entities for caching.

Abstract: A facility for creating and using flexible data-bound user interfaces is described. In some embodiments, the facility receives an indication of a reference that is contained within a document loaded by a client application. The reference indicates a line of business application containing information corresponding to the reference. The facility requests the line of business application for line of business information corresponding to the reference. When it receives the requested information, the facility directs the client application to render a user interface component based on the received information. The received information may contain rendering information and line of business information.

Abstract: Exemplary techniques are provided for defining a binding or relationship between the content of a document managed by an application and a service entity managed by an application service. The binding may enable the user to retrieve the service entity by selecting the document content within the application. The binding may comprise application metadata associated with the document content which provides a reference to the service entity, and context metadata which specifies a transformation performed on the application metadata to retrieve the service entity.