A system and method for facilitating distributed form processing is disclosed. The system ma deploy a form to both a client and a server, wherein the form is consistent with a common object model supported by both the client and the server. Scripts associated with the form may be marked to run on the client or on the server. When a script fires, if it is marked to run on the client, the script executes on the client. When the client fires a script marked to run on the server, the client sends the state of the form to the server, the server runs the script and returns the new state of the form to the client. The client updates the state of its form to reflect the changes made by the server.