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

A client processing apparatus for use in a client/server computing system which carries out transactions, the apparatus having: a means for issuing a begin command to signify the beginning of a transaction; a means for sending a command to a an object in a remote server, the 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 a means for receiving a modified transaction context from the remote server once the remote server has created the transaction objects.