The Benefits and Drawbacks of using The MVC Pattern
IV The Benefits of using The MVC Pattern1
- Different views and controllers can be substituted to provide alternate user interfaces for the same model.
- Multiple simultaneous views of the same model
- The change propagation mechanism insures that all views simultaneously reflect the current state of the model.
- Changes affecting just the user interface of the application become easier to make.
- With MVC it can be easier to test the core of the application, as encapsulated by the model.
V The problems of MVC2
- There’s increased complexity as an apllication may use other patterns at the same time as MVC.
- The view and the controller are closely coupled wich makes modification to one affect the other.
- Changes to the model interface will necessitate changes to the controller and the view.
- When the model is active frequent changes to model can result in excessive updates of the corresponding views.
Model View Controller explication page of the phpWACT framework, http://www.phpwact.org/pattern/model_view_controller
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