Optimizing your MVC

The MVC or Model View Controller of an application greatly suggests how it will perform or would perform as fast as you expect it. Developers often have a personal preference on what type of MVC to follow because their coding techniques and other factors they greatly consider points to the specific handling of MVC.

Although that practice could be effective as a stand alone application, it is still important to follow the industry recognized (or at least widely practiced).

Following Ajax’s Philosophy

One of the key features of an Ajax based application is the lesser bandwidth requirement even though it promises to provide RIAs. The reason for this success is based the fact that the capacity of the client side’s device (such as Personal Computer, Laptop etc.) is greatly involved. Instead of relying on the bandwidth, the web content loading will be based on the hardware capacity of the client side.

That is why in building an Ajax based application, developers have to involve the user more in the design of the application. Developers will let the client side run the logic instead of the information coming on from the server.

Client side logic will lessen bandwidth requirement as data and logic will be pushed from the server. The processes will be taken over by the client side or more specifically, the browser.

User-View-Controller

Another feature that should be implemented in an Ajax based application is the interaction of the controller directly with the user. This is pretty obvious to speed up the Ajax based applications but this is often ignored to favor a safer interaction of the user with the server instead of controllers.

Developers have to realize that security also depends on how you code the application and not on only in the process. In this setting, users will enjoy speedier transactions and better interaction because the process has been left wide opens to the users. Users can easily direct what they see online to different controllers.

XML, XML, XML

The use of XML as data carrier is very important in an Ajax based application that it has become the recommended mark-up language in an Ajax based application. Rendering the application as XML will increase interactivity and more importantly, compatibility with different browsers and operating systems.

As the universal mark-up language, it can seamlessly work with different browsers and applications. Since Ajax will not require any preinstalled programming languages, it can easily work with most browsers but developers have to ensure that the programming languages used in the application could be accepted by most browsers and operating system.

There’s an ongoing debate whether or not XML is the right choice considering JSON could better work with Ajax since JSON is a specialized mark-up language for JavaScript. Although JSON is faster, it’s not universally acceptable which make the speedier process useless.

The MVC for Ajax applications should be reconfigured in a way that users will achieve maximum interactivity. A few changes and following the specific standards for this programming technique will greatly help in the development of the application.