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In this respect, there is no difference from the caller prospective however a bit more work is going under the hood to transfer the active tracing span from JAX-RS client request filter to client response filter as in general those are executed in different threads (similarly to server-side asynchronous JAX-RS resource invocation). The actual invocation of the request by the client (with service name tracer-client) and consequent invocation of the service on the server side (service name tracer-server) is going to generate the following sample traces:

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Distributed Tracing with OpenZipkin Brave and JAX-WS support

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