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EDA ‘Model-View-Broker’ Pattern: The New MVC

Virtually every software developer in the world has heard of the ‘Model-View-Controller’ (MVC) Design Pattern, which is not entirely surprising given that it was “first introduced by Trygve Reenskaug, a Smalltalk developer at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1979.” Today, Oracle provides us with a nice representation of a 'Common MVC Implementation:'

Model-View-Controller Diagram
Now, more than forty years later, and in the context of an emerging star in software integration — ‘Event-Driven Architecture’ — it seems high time for the next generation of MVC to be announced: the ‘Model-View-Broker’ (MVB) Pattern. Here is a reworked version of the earlier MVC Diagram, with key changes marked in yellow:

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An Introduction to MVC Architecture: A Web Developer’s Point of View

MVC or Model View Controller

MVC Stands for Model View Controller and it's software architecture design pattern. The main goal of this architecture is to separate functionality, logic, and the interface of an application to promote organized programming. It also allows multiple developers to work on the same project.

Let's take a look at different components of MVC from a web developer's point of view. Let's take a look at some of the popular web frameworks that use MVC.