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Blockchain across Oracle

By : Robert van Molken
Book Image

Blockchain across Oracle

By: Robert van Molken

Overview of this book

Blockchain across Oracle gives you the professional orientation to Blockchain that you need as an Oracle developer in today’s changing world. Written and prepared for you by Oracle Developer Champion Robert van Mölken, this book gets you up to speed with the details of the Blockchain - core concepts, how to implement Oracle’s Blockchain Cloud Service, industry implications for the Blockchain, and how the Blockchain will affect your Oracle customers. Robert van Mölken introduces you to the history and concepts of the Blockchain. You’ll really get to understand the Blockchain inside and out, as an Oracle developer or solution architect. You’ll understand the Blockchain flow, and how the hashes and chains create a new decentralised paradigm for you as an Oracle developer. You’ll gain insights into how the Blockchain affects Oracle developers and customers in this modern and disruptive era. You’ll see how the Blockchain concepts work in this new world where Assets, Transactions, Security, and Privacy, can all be sustained across a decentralized system for your customers. Then you'll find a detailed look at the cutting-edge Oracle middleware solutions. You’ll learn about Hyperledger Fabric, the opensource Blockchain framework used by Oracle as its core, and how to set up your own Oracle Blockchain Network. You’ll design and develop a smart contract, and learn how to run it on the Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service. The final part of the book looks at how the Blockchain will affect your customers across various industry sectors. By studying industry trends in the financial services sector, healthcare industry, and the transport industry, you’ll discover how the options and possibilities for you and your clients are being transformed by the Blockchain across Oracle. You’ll complete this professional orientation by looking at Blockchain trends and future directions.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
3
Blockchain 101 - Assets, Transactions, and Hashes
4
Blockchain 101 - Blocks, Chains, and Consensus
Index

Configuring your blockchain network


As mentioned at the beginning of this chapter, as well as in previous chapters, you can configure your network using the management console without scripting the changes yourself. In this section and its subsections, we will explore some of the ways in which we can configure and optimize our network. We can, for example, change the settings of the ordering service and the configuration of peer, orderer, and Certificate Authority (CA) node. Let's explore the configuration of the nodes using our founder instance (Acme).

Note

Disclaimer: Keep in mind that these configuration screens and dialog windows can change as the OABCS matures in the future. These screens and dialog windows are based on the GA version. Always check the online documentation (https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/blockchain-cloud/) of OABCS whenever it looks different to you.

Ordering service

In Chapter 11, Setting Up Your Permissioned Blockchain, we configured our founder network to use...