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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Action-Domain-Responder (ADR) is a documentation project describing a web-specific architectural pattern that refines Model-View-Controller for HTTP interactions, splitting them into Action, Domain, and Responder roles. It provides explanatory essays, comparisons to Model 2 MVC, tradeoff analyses, and refactoring guidance rather than runnable code.

Use cases

• understand the ADR pattern as an alternative to MVC
• learn how to structure HTTP request handling into action, domain, and responder
• refactor a Model 2 MVC codebase to ADR
• compare tradeoffs between MVC and ADR before choosing an architecture
• find implementations and discussions of the ADR pattern
• teach web architecture patterns to a team

When to choose

• you are designing a server-side web application and want a clearer separation of HTTP presentation logic from domain logic than MVC offers
• you need written guidance and rationale for restructuring an MVC framework's controllers
• you want a well-documented, citation-backed pattern reference

When to avoid

• you need a runnable library or framework code, not pattern documentation
• you are building single-page apps or client-heavy frontends where server-side MVC/ADR patterns matter less
• your team is already committed to an MVC framework and has no need to change architecture

Facets

learning-resource · maturity maintenance

documentation web-framework web-development backend tutorials documentation cross-platform adr action-domain-responder mvc-alternative architecture-pattern design-pattern http refactoring web-server

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