 | Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture
 | Model
| Responsible for maintaining data and firing
events to registered Views when the model
changes |
|
| View
| Responsible for providing a visual
representation of some portion of the model's
data |
|
| Controller
| Handle events for the views |
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| Swing actually uses a variation of the MVC architecture by
combining the View and Controller into an UI Delegate that's
responsible for handling events and drawing a visual
representation of the Model |
| It is Swing's adoption of the MVC architecture that enables plaf
to be easily implemented -- Models don't depend on Views or
Controllers, so just plug a different View/Controller to a model
to change the look and feel |
