Mock question - identify design Pattern

[Swati Udas]

This is the last question from Quiz on Design Pattern on website by Marcus Green.

Your junior designer has bought you a design that embeds html in print statements and you are concerned that the business and presentation logic are tightly combined. You are concerned that this will make it difficult to modify the display without touching the business logic. Which design pattern could you recommend to help separate presentation design from business logic?

I was able to figure that the design pattern has to be either MVC or front controller. Could someone help me understand why the design pattern here is Front Controller and not MVC ?

[Ezhil S Alagesan]

I also get confused a little with these Either-MVC-or-Front-Controller type questions. May be the clue is lack of any data access components which will make us point to MVC pattern.

[Joe San]

It's pretty straight forward that this design pattern corresponds to MVC.

[Swati Udas]

Well the answer given on the website says it should be Front Controller
And would you please explain what is so clear about it being MVC/FC ?

[Joe San]

Doesn't this line from the question "Which design pattern could you recommend to help separate presentation design from business logic?" a good reason to say that MVC suits the given criteria?

[Ezhil S Alagesan]

The below stuff is taken from peabodyonscwcdpatterns doc on Front Controller

A centralized access point for presentation-tier request handling.
Forces
* You want to avoid duplicate control logic.
* You want to apply common logic to multiple requests. (IF)
* You want to separate system processing logic from the view. (MVC)
* You want to centralize controlled access points into your system. (IF)

Could anybody infer something with this piece of information.

[Swati Udas]

Well.. my mistake..
the answer on the website says MVC is correct.
May be reading more here -
http://java.sun.com/blueprints/patterns/MVC-detailed.html
will help us undertand the MVC pattern more clearly.