Design Patterns: How would you describe the MVC model?

Question

Ok, I need to give some attributes to describe what MVC model means for a developer. And the only word that hits for the moment it's modularization (separation).

And the funny thing is that I need to give some adjectives, not nouns. :| Any help? :)

Answer 1

To be honest, modular is going to be about as much as you'll come up with, simply because that's the basic idea behind it.

You could probably call on the old favourites, loosely coupled and highly coherent, meaning that the three parts have a very small interface between them but each part in itself is fully self-contained. Or, although it's not as pithy (nor technically an adjective), conforming to a distinct separation of duties.

In other words, the model is all the data-based stuff with no presentation or control information, similarly the controller part knows nothing about the data or how it's viewed, instead containing only control flow.

Beyond that, I can't provide much more help without referring to a thesaurus.