Question

Is the model-view-controller-pattern commonly used in Java?
I heard, that it’s common to use just 2 components of it, so that the view and the controller are only 1 component, communicating with the model.

Answer 1

I think the question may be too wide to answer, but, to make things clear to you:

• The MVC pattern is used on many popular java web frameworks, also the MVC model 2 is kind of popular.
• If you’re thinking on mobile applications, then Android uses the MVC pattern as well with well defined roles for the views and the controllers.
• If you’re thinking on desktop applications, there are some swing frameworks that as well use the MVC pattern.

So in short, the answer to your question is: Yes, the MVC pattern is widely used in java and normally the views and the controllers have their own roles, maybe in swing that concept is kind of mixed but in other type of applications not so much.

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