John Flack On MVC Development Using PL/SQL

A couple of years ago I helped put together a discussion forum application using the PL/SQL Web Toolkit. We released two versions of it and put it up on sourceforge, and for a while it was used as the internal discussion board within our company.

If you're familiar with PL/SQL, using the Web Toolkit is actually quite fun, and it's pretty easy to put together database-driven applications without too much overhead or initial work. Sometimes, however, rather than coding absolutely everything from scratch, it's good to have a framework to work within, and some method of separating the presentation code from the underlying application logic, and I was therefore interested to read a recent Amis Blog posting about a 'Model-View-Controller' approach for coding PL/SQL web applications.

The article refers to a paper by John Flack entitled "MVC Development in PL/SQL" and is available for download from the ODTUG website. According to the paper introduction:

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