As I see it, the Model in MVC is everything that is not C or V. It encompasses the service layer, the DAOs, the data objects and what have you.
The term Model on it's own doesn't mean much, and is very overloaded with meaning. You can see it as the data objects (stuff like Person(id, firstName, lastName) for example), but that's one definition of it.
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As I see it, the Model in MVC is everything that is not C or V. It encompasses the service layer, the DAOs, the data objects and what have you.
The term Model on it's own doesn't mean much, and is very overloaded with meaning. You can see it as the data objects (stuff like Person(id, firstName, lastName) for example), but that's one definition of it.