Apparatus, method and computer program product for client/server computing with intelligent location of transaction objects

A client processing apparatus for use in a client/server computing system which carries out transactions, issues a begin command to signify the beginning of a transaction; sends a substantive transactional command to a remote server, said command including a transaction context having a specific value which indicates that a transaction has been started but transaction objects which represent the transaction have not yet been created; and receives a modified transaction context from said remote server once said remote server has created said transaction objects.