Refactoring your legacy app to a MVC framework

Anant PradhanSenior Web Engineer, CUA@anant105

This presentation is about: Refactoring code to MVC

Not about… ColdBox vs. FW/1 

Software architecture pattern

Model: Business logic/database interactions

View: Visual representation of the system

Controller: Connects the model to the view

Advantages

Separation of concerns

Better Abstraction and Encapsulation

Better organized code ‐ Code reuse

Standardization

Disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing 

its external behavior

Goals

Understandability

Reduced complexity

Ease of maintenance and evolution

Ease of debugging

More reliable code

Light‐weight, single file, convention based framework

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Event‐driven, convention‐based framework

Model ‐> Model View ‐ > View Controller ‐> Handler Layouts ‐> Templates

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Framework One Wiki: https://github.com/framework‐one/fw1/wiki ColdBox Wiki: http://wiki.coldbox.org/

Contact Info:◦ Email: anant@anant5.com◦ Blog: http://anant5.com◦ Twitter: @anant105

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