Software Architecture with Spring 5.0

Common pitfalls

When we work on applications using MVC, it's common to find projects structured following the MVC acronym, as the following diagram illustrates:

MVC project structure

This directory structure indicates the following:

• The project name is abc-web
• This is a web application
• The application uses the MVC architecture (structure)

Unfortunately, none of these points provide meaningful information for the team in charge of creating or maintaining an application. That is because a team working on a project is not interested in the file organization. Instead, it's much more useful to organize your code according to business rules, use ...