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This page describes some architectural approaches adopted for the UI framework in Magnolia 6.x, which—when compared to the UI framework used in Magnolia 5.7—constitutes a shift in the paradigm of applying the model-view-presenter (MVP) pattern. Below, we explain especially explain—especially to developers who write custom UI components in Java hJava—how Magnolia UI components utilize use the MVP development pattern for UI components.

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• It is simpler to assemble UI components.
• Classes are preferred over interfaces.
• There are have typically less code and fewer abstractions.
• There are fewer dependencies between parent and child components.

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