>"Controller" is one of those terms that has meant a lot of different things at different times and in different systems It has a very specific meaning: http:/

>"Controller" is one of those terms that has meant a lot of different things at different times and in different systems It has a very specific meaning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model–view–controller http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model–view–controller >At the same time, I also don't think such a rule belongs in your model layer. I'm not talking personal preference, I am talking how MVC works. If your application were MVC, then yes it absolutely would be in the model.