Questions about application size and MVC decision

[Allan Cheong]

Hi, I am just wondering the size of the project. According to Sun's website, 3500 LoCs for the whole project is the reasonable and mean size. I've almost finished writing the codes for the assignment but the size of my assignment is only 1500 LoCs. Am I not doing enough? I did not dynamically read meta-data of database file though. I need your advice please.

Java NCSS v32.53
Nr.   Classes Functions      NCSS  Javadocs Package
  1        12        57       316        69 suncertify.db
  2         1         1        30         2 suncertify.entry
  3        27        86       988       113 suncertify.gui
  4         5         9        33        14 suncertify.rmi
  5         4         9        88        13 suncertify.service
  6         3         8        60         9 suncertify.util
    --------- --------- --------- ---------
           52       170      1515       220 Total

 Packages   Classes Functions      NCSS  Javadocs | per
-------------------------------------------------------------
     6.00     52.00    170.00   1515.00    220.00 | Project
               8.67     28.33    252.50     36.67 | Package
                         3.27     29.13      4.23 | Class
                                   8.91      1.29 | Function

ANd also the GUI codes are a lot because I decide to have a controller for each view. I have 4 views - configuration interface for each application mode, and a main window shared by network client and stand alone mode.

Should I just use one controller for all view?

[Roberto Perillo]

Howdy, Allan!

've almost finished writing the codes for the assignment but the size of my assignment is only 1500 LoCs. Am I not doing enough?

No need to worry about it, champion! The thing is, you have to solve a problem. 3500 LoC is enough for this assignment, but you know... one thing I learned is, the less code you write, the better. So, if you are able to solve this assignment with 1500, that's A-OK!

Should I just use one controller for all view?

Hum... as far as I can tell, your current approach is correct. Always try to code object-oriented. It looks like only one controller would be more procedural (unless it is a Front Controller! ).

[Roel De Nijs]

Hi Allan,

I used cloc to have some statistics about my application:

http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.07  T=0.5 s (86.0 files/s, 12484.0 lines/s)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language        files     blank   comment      code    scale   3rd gen. equiv
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
db                 10       103       874       559 x   1.36 =         760.24
direct              2        16        76        89 x   1.36 =         121.04
gui                18       334      1499      1539 x   1.36 =        2093.04
rmi                 4        33       172       170 x   1.36 =         231.20
service             4        22       145        42 x   1.36 =          57.12
to                  2        24        90        54 x   1.36 =          73.44
util                3        36       241       124 x   1.36 =         168.64
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUM:               43       568      3097      2577 x   1.36 =        3504.72
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

And your tool generated this statistics:

Nr.   Classes Functions      NCSS  Javadocs Package
  1        11        60       385        59 suncertify.db
  2         2         5        59         6 suncertify.direct
  3        40        98      1173       105 suncertify.gui
  4         4        10       113        13 suncertify.rmi
  5         4         8        29        12 suncertify.service
  6         2         4        39         6 suncertify.to
  7         3        16        85        19 suncertify.util
    --------- --------- --------- ---------
           66       201      1883       220 Total

 Packages   Classes Functions      NCSS  Javadocs | per
-------------------------------------------------------------
     7.00     66.00    201.00   1883.00    220.00 | Project
               9.43     28.71    269.00     31.43 | Package
                         3.05     28.53      3.33 | Class
                                   9.37      1.09 | Function

So results are quiet similar, no need to worry

Kind regards,
Roel

[Allan Cheong]

@Roberto: Ah... Just to be sure, I have to read up what is Front Controller now.

@Roel: You know I read your post about your experience in the SCJD exam and I was amazed by the precise LoC in your assignment. Just trying to follow the assignment size and hopefully to get a better score

[Roel De Nijs]

Allan Cheong wrote:and hopefully to get a better score

If you are able to achieve that one, I'll by you a beer (or even a 6-pack)