Question

I originally planned to build my web app in a MVC pattern, i was just wondering if it meets that?

I currently have this

Index page ——(Ajax Requests)—> Controllers ——> model

The data however seems to go from the model back to the controller and then passed back to the index page via ajax. I also use a bean for user login details..

What sort of architecture is this? Is it MVC, (there is no view?)

Thanks

Answer 1

That depends on the point of view.

From the client side point of view:

• Model: the webservice.
• Controller: the JS/Ajax code.
• View: the HTML DOM tree.

From the server side webservice point of view:

• Model: the business code.
• Controller: whatever servlet you used to control the request/response.
• View: the JSP page.

From the server side business point of view:

• Model: database entities.
• Controller: business domain objects.
• View: the webservice.