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    copied!<p>I was wondering what kind of MVC pattern the illustration below is. We are developing a web application according to this pattern using ColdFusion and it goes pretty well so far. But is it even some kind of MVC at all?</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/fBh6P.png" /></p> <p>A frontend page usually consists of:<br> - including the corresponding gateways (each model component has its own gateway with dedicated functionality)<br> - using the provided GATEWAY struct (contains components, arrays, structs etc. representing the desired data) to render output<br> - simple flow control (if/else/loops) to iterate through the provided data or distinguish view states<br> - if required: build forms (POST to same page) and name their field names according to GATEWAY specifications</p> <p>The GATEWAY file (always separated from frontend page) validates the request (usually POST data) and takes care of the data retrieval (i.e. selects/inserts/updates on database). Usually the GATEWAY requests data regardless of actions (evaluation of runetime data like SESSION). All operations are fail-safe, so either there is data in the resulting struct or the data is empty. Either way, two arrays (success, errors) in the struct provide a log of all performed actions during the processing to react accordingly on the frontend page. Most data is provided as components (objects), but all in all it is not a fully object-orientied approach. The only thing they have in common is: they all describe input parameters (GET, POST, Session, Cookie) and outgoing parameters, like a (RESTful) web service.</p> <p>I came up with a lot of ideas about the used pattern, but I wasn't able to match it in all regards yet.</p>
 

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