Lexicon

Anemic Layers

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Structural Core

Record: lexicon:anemic-layers

Canonical: Lexicon

The degree to which strict layering produces thin pass-through layers that add indirection without logic.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Use Cases and before End-to-End Traceability.

Category

  • Codebase / System Architecture Styles

In tension with

  • Layered Architecture
  • Layered Architecture / Anemic Layers

Linked from

  • Codebase / System Architecture Styles
  • The resolutions