A method for deploying a web-based application from a development site to a client site is described in which procedural logic of the web-based application is captured as declarative statements and stored in database objects managed by the database server. During operation of the application, a request indicating a page number of one of the pages is received from a user to perform an operation within the application. An instruction is retrieved from the database based on the page number, and the request is completed based on performing the retrieved instruction. The instructions may include a branch, a computation, a validation, or other kind of processing data.