- agent
See fabric agent.
- Apache ActiveMQ
An open source project that provides the messaging technology for Fuse MQ Enterprise.
- Apache Karaf
An open source project that provides the OSGi runtime container used by Fuse MQ Enterprise.
- bundle
The primary deployment format used in Fuse Fabric. They are either ZIP or JAR files that contain resources and classes for providing a set of functionality to other bundles or to the end user. Bundles differ from standard JAR files in that they must contain metadata describing the bundle and its dependencies.
See Also Fuse Application Bundle.
- child container
A container that is created by a container on the same host. Child containers are run on the same host as their parent container, but each child runs in a separate JVM.
When created using the console's admin:create-container, a child container inherits the features, feature repositories, and configuration from its parent. When a child container is created using the fabric:container-create command, the fabric:contaier-create-child, command, or Fuse Management Console, it does not inherit any configuration from its parent.
Regardless of how they are created, child containers can be started and shutdown from their parent container's console without using SSH.
- cluster
A collection of clustered services.
See Also clustered service.
- clustered service
A service that can be discovered via Fuse Fabric and has master/slave support.
- ensemble
One or more ensemble containers that work together as a master/slave group to maintain a fabric's registry.
See Also fabric registry.
- ensemble container
A Fuse container that hosts a fabric registry agent.
See Also registry agent.
- fabric
A collection of containers that share the same distributed runtime registry.
- fabric agent
The service running inside a Fuse container that is responsible for configuring and provisioning the container according to the profiles assigned to the container in the fabric registry and updating the registry with runtime information about the services in container.
- fabric registry
A ZooKeeper-based distributed registry that stores runtime and configuration information about the containers in a fabric.
- fabric registry agent
See registry agent.
- feature
A unit of OSGi deployment that enables you to deploy multiple bundles in a single step.
- feature repository
An XML file that defines one or more features.
- feature URL
A URL that points to a feature repository file.
- Fuse Application Bundle (FAB)
A bundle that uses a POM file to specify its dependencies.
- Fuse container
A Apache Karaf-based container created using either Fuse ESB Enterprise or Fuse MQ Enterprise.
- Fuse Fabric
An open source project that provides a distributed runtime registry that provides configuration, deployment, and discovery services to a collection of distributed containers.
See Also fabric.
- Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS)
A Java security framework for user-centric security to augment the Java code-based security.
- Java Management eXtensions (JMX)
A Java technology that supplies tools for managing and monitoring applications, system objects, devices, and service-oriented networks.
- managed container
A container that is managed by a fabric agent.
See Also fabric agent.
- OSGi
OSGi is set of open specifications aimed at making it easier to build and deploy complex software applications. The key piece of OSGi technology is the OSGi Framework. It defines standardized mechanism for packaging and managing application bundles. It can dynamical resolve dependencies between bundles and can handle having multiple versions of a bundle deployed simultaneously.
The OSGi specifications are maintained by the OSGi Alliance. See http://www.osgi.org.
- registry
See fabric registry.
- registry agent
A service running inside a Fuse container that is responsible for maintaining the fabric registry.
- Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
A string of characters used to identify or name a resource on the Internet.
- version
A collection of configuration profiles in a fabric.
See Also profile.






