Scala for Data Science

Model-View-Controller architecture

Many web frameworks impose program architectures: it is difficult to provide wires to bind disparate components together without making some assumptions about what those components are. The Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture is particularly popular on the Web, and it is the architecture the Play framework assumes. Let's look at each component in turn:

• The model is the data underlying the application. For example, I expect the application underlying GitHub has models for users, repositories, organizations, pull requests and so on. In the Play framework, a model is often an instance of a case class. The core responsibility of the model is to remember the current state of the application.
• Views are representations ...