Re: What is Model View Presenter. (Was: Hairy generics question)

From:
Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.java.gui
Date:
Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:08:23 -0800
Message-ID:
<jie707$4dm$2@news.albasani.net>
On 02/26/2012 10:22 AM, Daniel Pitts wrote:

On 2/26/12 9:13 AM, Arved Sandstrom wrote:

I'm laying this stuff out there simply to indicate that despite all the
terminology, much of it redundant and confusing and artificial, that MVC
and MVP are usefully different and real architectures, and that
Presenter is definitely not Controller.


I guess I had never heard of MVP, and just assumed the OP was recreating MVC
without clearly understanding the concept. This apparently was hubris on my
part, and I humbly apologize for that.

I'm going to do a web search to learn more about MVP architecture later today,
but I want to know what it means to people in this group as well, X-Posting to
clj.gui, since it seems relevant.

So, fellow Java engineers and Pragmatic Programmers, how would you compare and
contrast MVC vs MVP? Are there design/clarity benefits to one over the other?
That does "Presenter" mean to you?


Only what I find on the Web:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93presenter>

According to the fully authoritative and always-correct Wikipedia, it's a
particular variant of MVC, much as the front-controller pattern is a
particular variant of MVC.

Apropos of which, someone somewhere around these newsgroups complained that
MVC was bad for them because it centralized the controller. That's only the
one flavor of MVC that does that - it's not an essential feature of MVC that
there be only one controller.

--
Lew
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