From: Bryan Murphy <bryan@...>
Date: 2002-01-24T04:11:59+09:00
Subject: Re: OOP UI Design (was: [ANN] Ruby Publishing Framework v0.5.0)

Thomas Hurst wrote:

>http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-07-1999/jw-07-toolbox.html
>
>"Non-object-oriented approach #1: Model-View-Controller"
>
>"This extract-data-then-shove-it-elsewhere approach requires you to know
>way too much about how the model-level objects are implemented. A system
>based on that approach cannot be called object- oriented: there's just
>too much data flowing around for the system to be maintainable."
>
>Anyone have comments?  How do you impliment your user interfaces to
>objects?
>
>(don't forget to strip the (was:.*) line from the subject for replies)
>
Well, I'm not quite sure what you want as an answer.  If you want a big 
rant on how I feel MVC and the ruby framework coincide, then just keep 
an eye on the website as that's one of the things I'll be documenting in 
detail within the next week or so, at least in terms of how to build 
clean web applications.

Bryan