1. A method for accommodating different resolutions of references to components in composite applications, comprising: providing a composite application stored in a first storage unit; providing a set of references in the first storage unit that map to a set of components, each stored in its own storage unit, the set of components being used by the composite application; and the set of references comprising expressions that execute in a context of the first storage unit, and that can access a current execution context and stored data to return a fully qualified component reference.