question about components development

[soup a loignon y crouton]

I went through the MVC tutorials and I agree that the the new API is clean and logical

but now i am at a loss when i look at the joomla 1.5 code.

under administrators

if you compare for example the folder structure  for the components :

com_banners

and

com_contacts



in com_banners I see the folder structure CEHTV: Controllers Elements Helpers Tables Views  which is in agreement with the tutorials.


and  in com_contacts  the old structure of 1.0  with the well known  toolbar and component files + 2 subfolders.

Since I am starting on this Joomla MVC modeling architecture , I might as well use a clean coding methodology

What I am getting  at is: was there a reason in the com_contacts to use an hybrid of 1.0 and 1.5 or is it just because it was faster for the developers to do it that way ?

nothing wrong with that, it is just that i want to understand if there was a reason to differ from the tutorials architecture and it could not be done using the CEHTV: Controllers Elements Helpers Tables Views  folder structure. (to me, CEHTV looks much easier since you know where to look for when a bug appears)

coming from J2EE development environment where everything needs to be right and compliant ( like applying commonly used design patterns), i want to understand what is the level of "creative development" allowed by the Joomla MVC model and the API

[AmyStephen]

Simply put, it's not all in MVC application architecture, yet. The Links Manager is frequently pointed to as a good model for learning.

HTH!
Amy