A computer enabled method and system that can expose distributed transaction services as web services from service architecture. The system comprise a web service description component to generate a web service description of a distributed transaction service based on a description of the distributed transaction service, wherein the web service description allows a client to access the distributed transaction service as a web service once a web service invocation request is received. The one or more transaction service gateway servers operate to maintain the web service description of the distributed transaction service, and provide the web service description of the distributed transaction service to the client.