Building an application in an unplanned way suffers many problems, such as adding new features, making a huge effort as the architecture becomes rigid, maintaining the software (activities such as bug fixing) can turn into a nightmare, white box testing or unit testing the code becomes very difficult, and conflict and integration issues when many people work with the same or similar features. Generally, if no thought is given to refactoring as you go, the architecture may become a big ball of mud, and without planning, you may end up with a poor structure that might become difficult to change. To overcome these issues, we can employ many design patterns, such as MVC and MVP. GWT development goes very well with the MVP pattern as it allows loose coupling and separation of concerns.

The MVP approach divides the code into layers that solve the issues with code. MVP believes in separation of concerns and proposes the following logical layers: