Java Design Patterns: A Hands-On Experience with Real-World Examples

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27. MVC Pattern

Vaskaran Sarcar¹  

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Garia, Kolkata, India

 

This chapter covers the MVC pattern.

Definition

Trygve Mikkjel Heyerdahl Reenskaug, a Norwegian computer scientist, introduced the concept of the model–view–controller (MVC) pattern for graphical user interface (GUI) software design. He formulated this during his visit to the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in 1979. The Wikipedia link at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trygve_Reenskaug includes his quote:

“MVC was conceived as a general solution to the problem of users controlling a large and complex data set. The hardest ...