The data service enabling technologies adds to the base Sun Cluster 3.0 development API and provides the following new functionality.
Provides a higher level model commonly used for data service development, including all of Sun supplied data services
Integrates commonly used facilities for data service development in an integrated API framework
Provides a pre-canned model for fault monitoring, easily accessible through a set of APIs
All of these new benefits are primarily geared towards easing and expediting the development of more robust data services.