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The Java ecosystem had MVC a long time before .NET and a long time before rails mvc was even conceived. You seem to be missing a chunk of history.

Rails made MVC popular among lesser developers (bottom feeders, small projects, not much money - this may have changed now). A lot of organisations were using MVC as an enterprise design pattern a long time ago.

I think smalltalk devs were using the MVC pattern in the 80's and it's been in various Java enterprise stacks for a very very long time. It seems that everyone else caught up when being a low paid front end 'developer' became cool in the USA.

"Controller Model View Controller (MVC) is one of the most quoted (and most misquoted) patterns around. It started as a framework developed by Trygve Reenskaug for the Smalltalk platform in the late 1970s. Since then it has played an influential role in most UI frameworks and in the thinking about UI design."

- http://www.martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/modelViewController.h...