" Hence the term architectural pattern may be useful (Buschmann, et al 1996), or perhaps an aggregate design pattern. Operation In broad terms, constructing an application using an MVC architecture involves defining three classes of modules . Model: This is the domain-specific representation of the information on which the application operates. The model is another name for the domain layer. Domain logic adds meaning to raw data e. g. calculating if today is the user's birthday or the totals, taxes and shipping charges for shopping cart items. America Next Top Model Schedule View: This renders the model into a form suitable for interaction, typically a user interface element. MVC is often seen in web apps: the view is the html page and the code which gathers dynamic data for the page. "

" JavaServer Faces , Jakarta Struts and Webwork2 are currently the most popular web oriented MVC implementations. Struts works at a page level; JSF works at a component level . The WebObjects development/deployment environment is strongly based on MVC. Fusebox Mach-II Maypole Catalyst Tapestry ZNF Apache Cocoon Ruby on Rails General information Description in the Portland Pattern Repository Core J2EE Patterns - Front Controller Dicussion of JavaServer Pages Model 2 architecture MVC-Frameworks written in PHP () Holub, Allen: “Building user interfaces for object-oriented systems�, Java World, 1999. Gresh, John E. : “The Collection Switch Design Pattern�, Rensselaer Computer Science Seminar, 2004, 2004. Specific implementations Applications Programming in Smalltalk-80(TM):How to use Model-View-Controller Fusebox Mach-II Maypole Catalyst Model Glue For Coldfusion References Frank Buschmann, Regine Meunier, Hans Rohnert, Peter Sommerlad, Machael Stal (1996) Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, John Wiley and Sons. Mercedes From America Next Top Model ISBN 0-471-95869-7 . mvc is also the file extension for MivaScript files. "