Middle Man

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Enforcement Core

Record: architecture:middle-man

Severity: discouraged

Scope: modularity, correctness_verification, control_coordination

Formed by: Insert a module that delegates almost everything without adding policy, abstraction, validation, orchestration, or simplification.

Canonical: Ontology

A defect in which a module delegates almost every call without adding behavior of its own.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Message Chain and before Data Clumps.

Refactored by

• Collapse Layers
• Inline Abstraction
• Facade Pattern

Severity

• discouraged

Category

• Anti-patterns

Force

• Control coordination
• Correctness verification
• Modularity

Negated by

• Abstraction

Linked from

• Anti-patterns
• Core Modular Design
• Core Modular Design
• Severity levels
• The forces