Organic Programming

Nothing is wrong! MVC is the most famous design pattern after singleton but people have very diverse opinions and there are quite a lot of misunderstandings about this powerful design pattern.

MVC design pattern is  illustrated by this figure (from wikipedia [1] ):

Even if those dashed and solid lines are looking a bit dubious, in many existing MVC implementations  the reality is even more complex than this, look at the next  image from [2]:

Simple? No? Necessarly complex? There is no final answer yet, but in Quark 2.0 we have a simpler and elegant communication  paradigm between Models,View and Controllers.

In Quark, the controller is controlling the model and the view is strictly rendering the Model while triggering the controller when the user is asking for something. Also, as you can see in the picture, we are fans of fat models [3] ,  skinny controllers and dummy,auto-generated views like in Naked Objects , MDA,DDD [4] .

We know that some programmers do not have the capacity to understand that a “Model” is not just a wrapper of a database table but our approach that we call “Quark Schema”   should make things easier for anybody: advanced programmer or clueless user. Even non professional programmers could do the right things without worrying much about philosophical and technical details of MVC.  Our goal is to make a tool and a programming framework that will look and be simple like doing things in  Excel but resulting in nicely growed Organic Programs.

References:

[1]  MVC in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model–view–controller

[2] Pure MVC page on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PureMVC

[3] Links about Fat and skinny Models and controllers, anemic domain model,etc

http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/AnemicDomainModel.html

http://nuts-and-bolts-of-cakephp.com/2009/01/06/another-way-to-think-about-mvc/

[4] Naked Objects, About MDA and DDD : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_objects

And just for fun (and profit for some): About Fat Models