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Explain Model View Controller

My experience with developing dynamic websites is limited mostly to Java servlets. I've used Tomcat to develop various Java servlets, and I wouldn't hesitate to say that I'm reasonably proficient ...
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Using MVC in a Java app

I need to write a cross-platform GUI application to process (in multiple threads) and visualize fairly large quantities of data. Ideally the application should be relatively fast and look good. The ...
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How to completely decouple Model from View/Controller in Java Swing

Is there a collection of commonly-agreed-upon design guidelines for separating the Model classes from the View/Controller classes in a Java Swing app? I'm not so concerned that the View/Controller ...
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method to allow me ability to freely modify my classes, but make them immutable to others?

I am creating the model part of an MVC architecture. My one class will provide all the accesses to allow one to fetch system state. I want most of this state to be immutable as it shouldn't be ...
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MVC - Isolating view and model logic

I understand that the model should generally consist of data manipulation and the view for data display from the model, but how do I keep my model and view layers decoupled? My simple view has a few ...
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MVC for our application?

There are some issues about how to manage our program designs and programming styles. I was assigned to find a solution to write reusable code - though, the programming team does not follow the rules. ...
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Opensource showcase for MVC in Java Swing

I've allready created small desktop CRUD applications using Java/Swing. In hindsight I'm not quite sure if the overall design of these applications is good. I've also done some reading on MVC and ...
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How does MVC work with the principle “Tell, Don't ask”?

Procedural code gets information then makes decisions. Object-oriented code tells objects to do things. — Alec Sharp So, when a view wants to display some information that is suppose to be ...
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Is MVC the optimal pattern to build a RESTful web service?

Not being a Java practitioner, I recently came to learn about the JAX-RS specification and Apache CXF framework. While still wrapping my head around all these things, I also read the this question on ...
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MVC framework that uses classes instead of methods for actions

In most MVC frameworks, Controller class contains multiple methods, each representing one action. Then annotations and reflection is used to call those methods appropriately. But from OOP point of ...
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Do I need JUnit tests for the controller layer on a MVC when I have a database layer

I have a MVC which has this structure: ui controller db model Basically the controller doesn't really do much more than connection ui with db layer. Do I need to provide JUnit tests for the ...
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How to use MVC in practice

I'm very confused. I can't even begin to understand how MVC would be implemented outside of web development. This might seem like too general a question, but how would one apply MVC. I have the ...
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MVC: View-Controller Interaction

I have a Java application that I am implementing following the MVC pattern. I want to have a window (view) that contains a form which allows the user to add several text fields. There will also be a ...
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Difference between Controller and Dispatcher in MVC for web frameworks?

In MVC applied to WSGI or Java EE, is the Servlet a controller, dispatcher, or both? I think I've seen system diagrams where the controller and the dispatcher are different. Could the controller ...
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Java MVC extra classes

I have a simple MVC project. My current packages: gui controller db domain I want to put extra classes which I will use, e.g. md5 hashing, email validator (methods which I will use in more than ...

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