3.3. MVC Architecture
The Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture is one of the most widely used designs in object-oriented software development. Within Java, we can see MVC used at many levels, including:
JFC components
The interaction of servlets and JavaServer Pages
The Apache Struts framework
The “model” encapsulates the application's state and contains the business logic. For our application, we've created the package nfl.application to represent the model. (The nfl.persistence package provides persistent storage for the data in our model, but doesn't really play into the MVC interactions described here.) The model should not have any dependence on how the information will be displayed to the user; for example, by the end of this chapter, ...
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