1. A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method for communicating data between a database and a cache, the method comprising: storing, in a database of a service relying on a database system: data objects, and metadata describing the data objects, wherein the database system is accessible over a network and includes hardware and software that is shared by users; associating a cache separate from the database with an application capable of residing within a browser, the application having a plurality of user interface components and providing a feature of the service; storing, in the cache, a plurality of cache objects, each of the cache objects storing a different view of a plurality of the data objects stored in the database; during execution of the application in the browser, providing by the cache, from each of the cache objects to the user interface components of the application, the view of the plurality of the data objects stored in the database; asynchronously refreshing by the database system, in each of the cache objects, the view of the plurality of the data objects stored in the database, using the metadata describing the data objects.