19.2.3. Client-Side Handler Configuration

XTS does not require the client application to use a specific API to perform invocations on transactional Web Services. The client is free to use any appropriate API to send SOAP messages to the server and receive SOAP responses. The only requirements imposed on the client are:

In order to achieve this, the client must insert details of the current XTS context into the headers of outgoing SOAP messages, and extract the context details from the headers of incoming messages and associate the context with the current thread. To simplify this process, the XTS module includes handlers which can perform this task automatically. These handlers are designed to work with JAX-WS clients.