Alternatives to the MVC

model-view-controller design-patterns
Teifion picture Teifion · Sep 26, 2008 · Viewed 51.6k times · Source

What are the alternative "design methods" to the Model View Controller? MVC seems to be popular (SO was built with it, I know that much) but is it the only method used?

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Jörg W Mittag picture Jörg W Mittag · Sep 28, 2008

One of the best write-ups of several different Interactive Application Architecture Patterns out there, is this very detailed and well-researched blog-post. It covers Model-View-Controller, three different flavors of Model-View-Presenter, several different flavors of Presentation-Abstraction-Control, Supervising Controller, Passive View and Hierarchical MVC.

Another interesting pattern is the Presenter First pattern by Atomic Objects. It's not just a Design Pattern, it's also a Process Pattern. IOW: the name "Presenter First" is not arbitrary, it actually describes a development process, in which the Presenter gets written first, driving the design of the rest of the system.

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