Suggest MVC frameworks that do not use controller base classes

Question

Pseudo-code:

class SomeController {
  def myAction() {
    // controler is an property passed via ctor
    controller.redirect(toWhereever)
  }
}

// another variant
class AnotherController {
  def myAction(controller) {
    // controler is an method argument
    controller.redirect(toWhereever)
  }
}

Any suggestions?

Edit: Because the question is a bit dry you could try to spice up your answers with some experience with the framework and what do you think is better with that approach.

Answer 1

Spring MVC and Grails (built ontop of spring) favour dependency injection with no inheritance whatsoever. Each controller is a class that does not extend anything. Instead you can inject other components into it (using dependency-injection). For example:

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/user")
public class UserController {

     @Inject
     private UserService service;

     @RequestMapping("/register")
     public String register(User user) {..}

}

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/orders")
public class OrderController {
     @Inject
     private UserController userController
}

(Although it is not a common practice to inject controllers into other controllers, you can inject any object)