Examples
One example was the support of AppleTalk on Macintosh computers during the brief period in which Apple Computer supported the Open Transport networking system. Thousands of Mac programs were based on the AppleTalk protocol; in order to support these programs, AppleTalk was re-implemented as an OpenTransport "stack", and then re-implemented as an API shim on top of this new library.
The Microsoft Windows Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) uses the term to mean backward compatible libraries. Shims simulate the behavior of older versions of Windows for legacy applications that rely on incorrect or deprecated functionality, or correct the way in which poorly-written applications call unchanged APIs, for example to fix LUA bugs.
Wine is a shim that allows running many Microsoft Windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris, and Mac OS X based operating systems.
Read more about this topic: Shim (computing)
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