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JAVA MVC Design Pattern

Model–view–controller (MVC) is a software design pattern commonly used for


developing user interfaces that divides the related program logic into three interconnected
elements. This is done to separate internal representations of information from the ways
information is presented to and accepted from the user.

● The Model contains only the pure application data, it contains no logic describing how to
present the data to a user. (Its just a data that is shipped across the application like for
example from back-end server view and from front-end view to the database. In java
programming, Model can be represented by the use of POJO (Plain-old-java-object) which
is a simple java class.
● The View presents the model’s data to the user. The view knows how to access the model’s
data, but it does not know what this data means or what the user can do to manipulate it.
View just represent, displays the application’s data on screen. View page are generally in the
format of .html or .jsp in java programming (which is flexible).
● The Controller exists between the view and the model. It is where the actual business logic
is written. It listens to events triggered by the view (or another external source) and executes
the appropriate reaction to these events. In most cases, the reaction is to call a method on the
model. Since the view and the model are connected through a notification mechanism, the
result of this action is then automatically reflected in the view.
Let’s see an example of MVC Design Pattern.

class Student
{
private String rollNo;
private String name;
public String getRollNo()
{
return rollNo;
}
public void setRollNo(String rollNo)
{
this.rollNo = rollNo;
}
public String getName()
{
return name;
}
public void setName(String name)
{
this.name = name;
}
}
class StudentView
{
public void printStudentDetails(String studentName, String studentRollNo)
{
System.out.println("Student: ");
System.out.println("Name: " + studentName);
System.out.println("Roll No: " + studentRollNo);
}
}

class StudentController
{
private Student model;
private StudentView view;
public StudentController(Student model, StudentView view)
{
this.model = model;
this.view = view;
}
public void setStudentName(String name)
{
model.setName(name);
}
public String getStudentName()
{
return model.getName();
}
public void setStudentRollNo(String rollNo)
{
model.setRollNo(rollNo);
}
public String getStudentRollNo()
{
return model.getRollNo();
}
public void updateView()
{
view.printStudentDetails(model.getName(), model.getRollNo());
}
}
class MVCPattern
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
Student model = retriveStudentFromDatabase();
StudentView view = new StudentView();
StudentController controller = new StudentController(model, view);
controller.updateView();
controller.setStudentName("Vikram Sharma");
controller.updateView();
}
private static Student retriveStudentFromDatabase()
{
Student student = new Student();
student.setName("Lokesh Sharma");
student.setRollNo("15UCS157");
return student;
}
}

Advantages
● Multiple developers can work simultaneously on the model, controller and views.
● MVC enables logical grouping of related actions on a controller together. The views for a
specific model are also grouped together.
● Models can have multiple views.
● The overall components of an application are easily manageable & are less dependent on
each other for proper functioning of application.

Disadvantages
● The framework navigation can be complex because it introduces new layers of abstraction
and requires users to adapt to the decomposition criteria of MVC.
● Knowledge on multiple technologies becomes the norm. Developers using MVC need to be
skilled in multiple technologies.

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