Elastic APM and openTracing

Elastic Observability APM
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I guess I am not clear on how to pass context to the openTracing API using the elastic APM bridge. Jaeger imports a tracing package:

    try (Scope scope = Tracing.startServerSpan(tracer, httpHeaders, "publish")) {
        System.out.println(helloStr);
        scope.span().log(ImmutableMap.of("event", "println", "value", helloStr));
        return "published";
    }

In this case, I can't just replace the Jaeger tracing package with the elastic APM tracer, or can I?