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The MVC model separates applications into three main components - the model, the view, and the controller. The model manages the application's data and logic. The view displays the data to the user. The controller handles user input and calls on the model and view. Using MVC architecture decreases code duplication, improves reusability and testability of components, and separates an application's different logical elements and concerns.

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07 MVC

The MVC model separates applications into three main components - the model, the view, and the controller. The model manages the application's data and logic. The view displays the data to the user. The controller handles user input and calls on the model and view. Using MVC architecture decreases code duplication, improves reusability and testability of components, and separates an application's different logical elements and concerns.

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The MVC Model

MVC Architecture
•  MVC: Model-View-Controller Architecture

•  MVC architecture divides applications into three layers –


Model, View, and Controller
MVC (made it simple)
MVC: Advantages
•  MVC separates design concerns:
–  data persistence and behavior
–  presentation
–  control
•  It decreases the duplication of code
•  Makes the application more easy to modify
•  You can apply unit-testing to the different components

•  Components in MVC are:


–  Reusable
–  Expressive
MVC: M from Model
•  The model represents business data
and logic

•  Responsible for example:


•  Performing DB queries
•  Calculating the total cost
•  Processing orders

•  Encapsulate of data and behavior


which are independent of presentation
MVC: V from View
•  View (Presentation layer)
•  Display information according to client
types
•  Display result of business logic (Model)
•  Not concerned with how the information
was obtained, or from where (that is the
responsibility of Model)
MVC: C from Controller
•  Controller (Control layer)
•  Serves as the logical connection
between the user's interaction and the
business services on the back
•  Responsible for making decisions
among multiple presentations:
•  User's language, locale or access
level dictates a different
presentation.
•  A request enters the application
through the control layer, it will decide
how the request should be handled
and what information should be
returned
Evolution of MVC (Java context)

•  No MVC
•  MVC Model 1 (Page-centric)
•  MVC Model 2 (Servlet-centric)
•  Web application frameworks
– Example: Struts
•  Standard-based Web application framework
– JavaServer Faces (JSR-127)
MVC1: Page-centric
MVC2: Servlet-centric
Web-Application Frameworks
•  Web-tier applications share common set of functionality:
– Dispatching HTTP requests
– Invoking model methods
– Selecting and assembling views

•  Why a Framework?
–  Provide classes and interfaces that can be extended by developers
–  Frameworks hide the details
–  Don't repeat yourself
–  Rapid application Development (provide classes and interfaces that can be
extended by developers)
–  Easily replace any component

•  Examples of Frameworks:
–  Apache Struts
–  Grails
–  Django
–  CakePHP
–  Ruby on Rails
–  Catalyst
–  ... ... many others
MVC model using
Servlets&JSP
Steps…

•  Create bean(s) to represent the data


•  Use a Servlet to handle request
•  Populate the bean(s)
•  Store the bean in request or session
•  Forward request to the JSP
•  Extract data from the bean(s)
Request-based data sharing
Session-based data sharing

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