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Blockchain Development with Hyperledger

By : Salman A. Baset, Luc Desrosiers, Nitin Gaur, Petr Novotny, Anthony O'Dowd, Venkatraman Ramakrishna, Weimin Sun, Xun (Brian) Wu
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Blockchain Development with Hyperledger

By: Salman A. Baset, Luc Desrosiers, Nitin Gaur, Petr Novotny, Anthony O'Dowd, Venkatraman Ramakrishna, Weimin Sun, Xun (Brian) Wu

Overview of this book

Blockchain and Hyperledger are open source technologies that power the development of decentralized applications. This Learning Path is your helpful reference for exploring and building blockchain networks using Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric, and Hyperledger Composer. Blockchain Development with Hyperledger will start off by giving you an overview of blockchain and demonstrating how you can set up an Ethereum development environment for developing, packaging, building, and testing campaign-decentralized applications. You'll then explore the de facto language Solidity, which you can use to develop decentralized applications in Ethereum. Following this, you'll be able to configure Hyperledger Fabric and use it to build private blockchain networks and applications that connect to them. Toward the later chapters, you'll learn how to design and launch a network, and even implement smart contracts in chain code. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be able to build and deploy your own decentralized applications by addressing the key pain points encountered in the blockchain life cycle. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Blockchain Quick Start Guide by Xun (Brian) Wu and Weimin Sun • Hands-On Blockchain with Hyperledger by Nitin Gaur et al.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

A model of the business network


Now that we've understood the types in the business network in natural language, let's see how they are defined technically. On the left-hand side of the Playground, select Model File.

 In this business network, there is only one model file that defines the participants, assets, transactions, and events. In a bigger application, we'd keep the information from different organizations in their own files, and often in their own namespace. It allows them to be kept separate but brought together when necessary. Let's see how namespaces work.

Namespaces

Our example uses a single namespace:

namespace org.acme.loc

This namespaces says that the type definitions in this file have been defined by the Acme organization's letter of credit process. All this is a short name! Use namespaces–they'll help you clearly separate, and more importantly, communicate, your ideas. It is recommended to use a hierarchical name so that it's clear which organizations in the network are defining...