📖What it means

The thin layer an app calls instead of reaching into working code directly. It keeps apps as transparency surfaces: the shim does the reading, the app only renders.

📖Easily confused with

[{"term": "App", "distinction": "The app renders; the shim is what it is allowed to read through."}, {"term": "Droid", "distinction": "A shim only reads and shapes data; a droid performs work."}]

📖Also called

- adapter
- boundary layer
- accessor

📖Filed under

Category: general.

Service: Governance.