Chapter 14. Web Presentation Patterns
Model View Controller
Splits user interface interaction into three distinct roles.
Model View Controller (MVC) is one of the most quoted (and most misquoted) patterns around. It started as a framework developed by Trygve Reenskaug for the Smalltalk platform in the late 1970s. Since then it has played an influential role in most UI frameworks and in the thinking about UI design.
How It Works
MVC considers three roles. The model is an object that represents some information about the domain. It’s a nonvisual object containing all the data and behavior other than that used for the UI. In its most pure OO form ...
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