It’s rarely used in games. It took me a while to figure out why, but here’s my thoughts: MVC exists to make a distinction between two representations. The Model is the abstract representation of your data. It’s how the machine views the state of your application. The View (and Controllers) represent a more concrete visible … Read more
Passive View – http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/PassiveScreen.html Supervising Controller – http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/SupervisingPresenter.html Model-View-Presenter – http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/ModelViewPresenter.html My personal favorite is the Passive View. More testable than others I’ve seen including MVC.
To clear things a little bit here. A Router is not a Controller, It’s a way to define a client-side route map (similar to Rails’s routes.rb). This helps routing client-side pages to certain actions/handlers. And that’s different from a controller’s job which is to provide a bit of orchestration between Models and Views. And there … Read more
HMVC can do anything that MVC can and more one of the things that you will or had struggled with in MVC is that you can’t call a controller from another controller (unless you use a custom library or helper to do that) in HMVC (Hierarchical Model View Controller) you can do that , i … Read more
Generally I try to keep controllers simple in terms of logic too. If business logic is required, it will go up to ‘service layer’ classes to handle it. This also saves repeating any code/logic too, which ultimately makes the whole project more maintainable if business logic was to change. I just keep models purely as … Read more
Seeing you are NEW to ColdFusion what I would do is pick ONE FRAMEWORK and stick to it. At first it will be hard you will have problems and you will be tempted to drop the Framework you have chosen but don’t do it. After you have mastered one framework then you can learn the … Read more
How about this – off the top of my head, hopefully it works for you. MVC can be metaphorically related to a TV. You have various channels, with different information on them supplied by your cable provider (the model). The TV screen displays these channels to you (the view). You pressing the buttons on the … Read more
IMO, the best examples are with code and/or starter kits. Rob Conery has a great number of posts that explain how to to create an MVC site with ASP.NET MVC. Each one of these has a video tutorial which runs through the blog post discussion. The official ASP.NET MVC site also has some video posts, … Read more
MVC is the separation of model, view and controller — nothing more, nothing less. It’s simply a paradigm; an ideal that you should have in the back of your mind when designing classes. Avoid mixing code from the three categories into one class. For example, while a table grid view should obviously present data once … Read more
At its heart, two models is about Separation of Concerns. I want my View to work off of a single Model. I want my Domain Model to represent the conceptual model I build with the domain experts. ViewModel often has technical constraints. Domain Model is about POCO, and not being bound by technical constraints of … Read more