16. The client device of claim 14 , the view layer to generate and render a task detail toolbar customized to provide access to details of the actionable context data in the desktop widget.
14. A mobile client device comprising: display hardware that supports an interactive graphical user interface (GUI); and an active business client coupled to the display hardware, to provide a desktop widget operating platform on which to execute a desktop widget, the active business client to access business context data received from a server, the business context data describing a resource, a view, and actionable context data related to a business scenario, the business context data including an instance of at least one data object, the instance generated from a model of the data object and enriched with metadata identifying the business scenario, the business scenario providing an end business purpose for a work action, the business context data not specific to a particular user interface (UI) type, without UI model or UI pattern information in the business context data wherein the resource includes a functional resource used to perform the work action, wherein the view includes a metadata definition of a generic presentation form to be processed to render the business context data in a UI, wherein the actionable context data includes interactive content to perform the work action and cause an action at the server, and wherein the UI type includes interface hardware and associated drivers, the active business client having a controller layer at the mobile client device to process the business context data to determine a GUI component to generate to represent the business context data, the GUI component having GUI elements with interfaces to render the view on the business context data; and a view layer to generate the GUI component based on the business scenario, the GUI component being formatted to the specific GUI for the display hardware and based on a UI type available on the mobile client device and the controller layer, to render the view on the business context data from the generic presentation form to a format supported by the UI type available on the mobile client device, and render the GUI component in a desktop widget, provided on the display to provide access to the actionable context data on the client device, where an operation on the instance of the business context data is to cause the operation to be applied to the data at the server.