1. A method for enabling a plurality of resources to be used to serve a request in a web-based application environment, comprising: defining an extended uniform resource identifier (URI) scheme via which resource identification information corresponding to the plurality of resources may be embedded in a URI string; defining a set of parsing rules by which resource identification information may be extracted from a URI string corresponding to the extended URI scheme; and in response to receiving a request, parsing a URI string corresponding to the extended URI scheme that pertains to the request based on the parsing rules to extract the resource identification information; and using resources specified by the extracted resource identification information to service the request.