Cocoa 01 Jul 2006 12:08 pm
Cocoa MVC
While reading up on Apple’s CoreData technology, I stumbled across one of those wonderful pearls of wisdom that seems so painfully obvious in hindsight, and yet never seems to reveal itself in foresight (especially when one is so focused on learning the low-level details). Funny that I’d never seen it before.
In a nutshell, three of Apple’s marquee developer products correspond directly the three components of MVC:
- The Model is the CoreData framework
- The View is Interface Builder
- The Controller is the Cocoa Bindings framework
And of course, we need a pretty picture, from the CoreData page above:
Kind of a silly epiphany, yes, but very useful for keeping things straight while sifting through the reams and reams of online developer docs, frameworks, IDE features, and APIs. Especially for those of us who are just starting to soak their feet in Mac development.
