Big Ball of Mud

While much attention has been focused on high-level software architectural patterns, what is, in effect, the de-facto standard software architecture is seldom discussed. This paper examines the most frequently deployed architecture: the BIG BALL OF MUD

Big Ball of Mud Big Ball of Mud Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder Department of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1304 W. Springfield Urbana , IL 61801 USA foote@cs.uiuc.edu (217) 328-3523 yoder@cs.uiuc.edu (217) 244-4695 Saturday, June 26, 1999 Fourth Conference on Patterns Languages of Programs ( PLoP '97 / EuroPLoP '97 ) Monticello, Illinois, September 1997 Technical Report #WUCS-97-34 ( PLoP '97 / EuroPLoP '97 ), September 1997 Department of Computer Science , Washington University Chapter 29 Pattern Languages of Program Design 4 edited by Neil Harrison, Brian Foote ,

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