Naked Objects MVC is a software framework that builds upon the Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Framework

ASP.NET MVC Framework

The ASP.NET MVC Framework is a web application framework that implements the model-view-controller pattern. Based on ASP.NET, it allows software developers to build a Web application as a composition of three roles: Model, View and Controller. A model represents the state of a particular aspect of...

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As the name suggests, the framework synthesises two architectural patterns: naked objects

Naked objects

Naked objects is an architectural pattern used in software engineering.-Definition:The naked objects pattern is defined by three principles:...

 and Model-view-controller

Model-view-controller

Model–view–controller is a software architecture, currently considered an architectural pattern used in software engineering. The pattern isolates "domain logic" from the user interface , permitting independent development, testing and maintenance of each .Model View Controller...

 (MVC). These two patterns have been considered as antithetical. However, Trygve Reenskaug

Trygve Reenskaug

Trygve Mikkjel Heyerdahl Reenskaug is a Norwegian computer scientist and professor emeritus of the University of Oslo. He formulated the model-view-controller pattern for Graphic User Interface software design in 1979 while visiting the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center...

 (the inventor of the MVC pattern) has made it clear that he does not see it that way, in his foreword to Richard Pawson's PhD thesis on the Naked Objects pattern.

The Naked Objects MVC framework will take a Domain model

Domain model

A domain model in problem solving and software engineering can be thought of as a conceptual model of a domain of interest which describes the various entities, their attributes, roles and relationships, plus the constraints that govern the integrity of the model elements comprising that problem...

 (written as POCO

Poco

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s) and render it as a complete HTML

HTML

HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....

 application without the need for writing any user interface

User interface

The user interface, in the industrial design field of human–machine interaction, is the space where interaction between humans and machines occurs. The goal of interaction between a human and a machine at the user interface is effective operation and control of the machine, and feedback from the...

 code - by means of a small set of generic View and Controller classes. The framework uses reflection

Reflection (computer science)

In computer science, reflection is the process by which a computer program can observe and modify its own structure and behavior at runtime....

 rather than code generation

Code generation

In computer science, code generation is the process by which a compiler's code generator converts some intermediate representation of source code into a form that can be readily executed by a machine ....

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The developer may then choose to create customised Views and/or Controllers, using standard ASP.NET MVC patterns, for use where the generic user interface is not suitable.

External links

• Home page for the Naked Objects MVC framework: www.nakedobjects.net