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Re: How is this "pattern" called?

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On Fri, 18 May 2012 10:03:04 -0600, Jim Janney
<jjanney@shell.xmission.com> wrote:

>ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
>
>>   In the MVC pattern, I think, M, V, and C should be at least
>>   one non-innner class each?
>>
>>   I often have seen (possibly, especially in beginner code) a
>>   coding pattern, where there is only one single non-inner class:
>>   the model.

     Beginner code does tend to be for a small system.

>>   The listeners and the view then are embedded into this
>>   model, possibly, as inner classes. It's not really MVC
>>   as the observer pattern is not used for decoupling.
>>
>>   So, to code a simple Java-GUI application, one just writes
>>   a single class with the model and the controllers as inner
>>   classes and no observer pattern for model-view decoupling. 
>>   Is there a name for this simple design?

     How about "KISS"?

>>   What about »the bulk-class pattern«? Or »the naive GUI pattern«?
>
>Big Ball of Mud seems to fit:
>
>http://laputan.org/mud/

     If the ball is not big, then it is a case of KISS or maybe YAGNI.

     There is little sense in using large system methodology on a
small system.  (Do watch though that you do not keep adding to a small
system and switch over to having a large system wihtout realising it.)

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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Re: How is this "pattern" called? Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-05-18 10:03 -0600
  Re: How is this "pattern" called? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-18 10:50 -0700
    Re: How is this "pattern" called? markspace <-@.> - 2012-05-18 12:20 -0700
      Re: How is this "pattern" called? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-18 14:13 -0700
        Re: How is this "pattern" called? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-05-18 14:35 -0700
          Re: How is this "pattern" called? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-18 15:29 -0700
            Re: How is this "pattern" called? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-05-19 22:38 -0400
              Re: How is this "pattern" called? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-05-20 11:34 -0700
                Re: How is this "pattern" called? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-05-20 14:59 -0400
                Re: How is this "pattern" called? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-05-20 12:03 -0700
                Re: How is this "pattern" called? markspace <-@.> - 2012-05-20 13:19 -0700
                Re: How is this "pattern" called? Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-05-30 14:32 +0200
                Re: How is this "pattern" called? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-06-02 09:25 -0700
              Re: How is this "pattern" called? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-20 20:40 -0700
                Re: How is this "pattern" called? Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-05-30 14:33 +0200
          Re: How is this "pattern" called? Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-05-30 14:32 +0200
        Re: How is this "pattern" called? markspace <-@.> - 2012-05-18 15:28 -0700
        Re: How is this "pattern" called? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-05-19 22:37 -0400
          Re: How is this "pattern" called? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-20 20:43 -0700
            Re: How is this "pattern" called? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-05-21 00:09 -0700
              Re: How is this "pattern" called? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-21 10:04 -0700
            Re: How is this "pattern" called? Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-05-30 23:58 +0200
    Re: How is this "pattern" called? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-05-19 22:33 -0400
      Re: How is this "pattern" called? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-05-20 20:44 -0700
        Re: How is this "pattern" called? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-05-21 00:11 -0700

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