1. A method of configuring an application to operate within a computing environment presented on at least two devices, the method comprising: configuring the application to access objects of an object hierarchy representing the computing environment; configuring respective devices to render the computing environment including the application from the objects of the object hierarchy; inserting the application into the object hierarchy; and synchronizing at least a portion of the object hierarchy relating to the application with the respective devices to deploy the application; and upon receiving from an application an HTTP verb specifying an operation involving at least one object of the object hierarchy, apply the operation specified by the HTTP verb to the at least one object of the object hierarchy.