A somewhat different implementation of MVC has been popularized by frameworks
like Microsoft’s ASP.NET1. Rather than have requests go through a dispatcher
to look up a controller to execute, the view is hit directly and calls its controller
before continuing to render. Although this pattern gives up some of the decoupled
nature of a more classic MVC implementation, it should gain in productivity and
tool support (especially in Microsoft Visual Studio). This type of development canalso be supported by WebWork by using the <webwork:action> custom tag (see
chapter 9, “Tag libraries,” for a discussion of the WebWork tag library).

A lightweight container is different—it gives you the ability to add features to a generic container, thereby making a unique container that fits the
needs of your application.