[Info-vax] User Interface Design, Implementation

[Richard Maher]

On 5/06/2019 6:59 am, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 6/4/2019 11:11 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> In more recent times, this UI design and implementation discussion can 
>> be a subtopic of a larger app architectural discussion, such as 
>> model-view-controller app designs, or analogous schemes.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model–view–controller
>>
>> OpenVMS doesn't have a concept of MVC, though that's an approach that 
>> can certainly be used within OpenVMS apps.  And MVC has its issues.
> 
> Does VMS have less MVC than any other OS?
> 
> There are probably way less GUI frameworks available on VMS than
> the more popular platforms.
> 
> But if the GUI framework is available on VMS, then it should
> support MVC just as well as on any other OS.
> 
> Various Java frameworks (Swing, Struts 1, Struts 2, JSF, Spring MVC).
> 
> Various PHP frameworks (Laravel, CodeIgniter, Symfony, ZF, CakePHP).
> 
> Maybe RoR and Grails would run as well.
> 
>> Alas, SMG and FMS and ANSI control sequences and such are very far 
>> from the pinnacle of what many folks expect for clients.
> 
> Yep.
> 
> Arne
> 
> 


I and most others now use mvC or just "C"ontrollers for RESTful APIs. 
Any language could support this.