The XTS Development Guide explains how to add resilience to distributed business processes based on web services, making them reliable in the event of system or network failures. It covers installation, administration, and development of transactional web services.

The JBoss Application Server implements Web Services Transactions standards using XTS (XML Transaction Service). XTS supports development and deployment of transaction-aware web services. It also enables web service clients to create and manage web service transactions from which transactional web services can be invoked. XTS ensures that the client and web services achieve consistent outcomes even if the systems on which they are running crash or temporarily lose network connectivity.

XTS is compliant with the WS-Coordination, WS-Atomic Transaction, and WS-Business Activity specifications. The implementation supports web services and clients which are based on the JaxWS standard. XTS is itself implemented using services based on JaxWS. While this guide discusses many Web Services standards like SOAP and WSDL, it does not attempt to address all of their fundamental constructs. However, basic concepts are provided where necessary.