Here is a simplified flowchart illustrating how the ActionClass-aware custom dispatcher works.

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A recent article on InfoWorld by Tom Yager talks about some things being considered by AMD with regards to their recent acquisition of ATI. The most interesting part of the article is the last paragraph where it says:

Lastly, and remember you heard it here, AMD is strongly considering open-sourcing at least a functional subset of ATI’s graphics drivers.

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I have just finished one of my most important modifications to CakePHP. In my old framework, I used a similar pattern where in a request is handled as a “mode” plus an “command” with optional parameters. This is similar in spirit to CakePHP’s controller/action way of doing things. In my implementation however, commands (analogous to CakePHP actions) are implemented using separate classes.

While some may argue that this manner of implementing MVC is overkill in typical applications, in very large applications (like PhilWeavers.net) it leads to very quick turn-around when it comes to adding new actions or modifying existing ones.

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