19.2. Creating Client Applications

There are two aspects to a client application using XTS, the transaction declaration aspects, and the business logic. The business logic includes the invocation of Web Services.

Transaction declaration aspects are handled automatically with the XTS client API. This API provides simple transaction directives such as begin, commit, and rollback, which the client application can use to initialize, manage, and terminate transactions. Internally, this API uses SOAP to invoke operations on the various WS-C, WS-AT and WS-BA services, in order to create a coordinator and drive the transaction to completion.