What is Model View Presenter?

design-patterns, model-view-controller, mvp

Solution

Martin Fowler has a page on UI design patterns, in which he defines and then talks about MVC, MVP and other patterns.

http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/uiArchs.html

To summarise the differences, Controllers in the MVC have more control over the UI, and handle events, while a presenter in the MVP is more passive, and just presents information through the UI.

In general there's not much difference, and often the line between them is blurry.

Problem

Can someone please explain in a way as simple as possible what the Model View Presenter pattern is? What is the difference with Model View Controller ? Which is best or for which purpose ?

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