Madvoc

Madvoc is a MVC framework that uses conventions and annotations in a pragmatic way to simplify the development of web applications. A significant effort is put into making usage of Madvoc simple. There are no external (xml) configurations, actions are simple POJOs, it is compatible with any view technology and so on… What's best is that it is developer friendly: Madvoc offers several ways how it can be configured and used, so you can use whatever matches your coding preferences.

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Here is a simple Madvoc action (request handler):

    @MadvocAction
    public class HelloAction {

        @In
        String name;

        @Out
        String value;

        @Action
        public String world() {
            value = "Hello World!";
            return "ok";
        }
    }

This action class and a method define the following mapping:

/hello.world → HelloAction#world() → /hello.world.ok.jsp

This is NOT the only way how mappings works! In fact, Madvoc advocate users to change the defaults to whatever the convention is in use.

The action method takes one input request parameter (name) and prepares one request attribute for the output (value). Action is also intercepted by default interceptor stack (default configuration is defined outside of actions).

While this action uses only default configuration; almost everything can be configured to work differently. For example, the following action is also an Madvoc action - this time one that defines a REST endpoint:

    @MadvocAction
    public class BookAction {

        @RestAction("{bookId}")
        public Book get(@In int bookId) {
        }
    }

The REST mappings is:

GET /book/123 → BookAction#get() → Book.json

Quite simple, yet powerful. Go and make your own Madvoc conventions, easily!