Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS)

Techopedia explains Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS)

Microsoft Transaction Server is software that provides services to component object model software to make it easy to create large, distributed applications. The main services that MTS provides includes automated transaction management, instance management and role-based security.

MTS architecture contains MTS executive, factory wrappers and context wrappers for each component. It also provides an MTS server component, MTS clients and auxiliary systems such as COM runtime services, Windows Service Control Manager, Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator, Microsoft Message Queuing and a COM transaction integrator.

MTS also inserts factory wrapper objects and object wrappers between actual MTS components managed by MTS and the client. When the client makes a call to an MTS component, wrappers intercept the call and inserttheir own instance management algorithm - referred to as just-in-time activation - into calls. Wrappers are then capable of making calls on actual MTS components. Security checks and transaction logic are performed on wrapper objects based on information from component deployment properties.