Balanced abstract web-MVC style: an abstract MVC implementation for web-based applications

Abstract

The features and the capabilities of web applications are growing rapidly, and the complexities and difficulties of web applications engineering are also growing in parallel. If the architectural formalism of these advanced web applications is well realized, the complexities could be understood, thus the difficulties could be reduced. Model-View-Controller (MVC) has been recognized as a well-formed architectural style, and has been widely used in web applications engineering in various forms of implementations. These MVC implementations are heavily dependent on specific set of technologies and/or some other facts; hence, they do not provide an abstract realization to be used in a wider range of web application engineering. We propose an implementation of MVC in more abstract form, which – we think – will increase the realization of the advanced web applications, thus lower the engineering complexities and difficulties of web applications. We believe that this implementation is more applicable in a wider range of environments and technologies, and will upturn the architectural properties like performance and modifiability. Based on this implementation we introduce an MVC based architectural style for web applications. In future, we expect to improve this further towards supporting Rich Internet Applications.