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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

Analyzing the letter of credit process


At the core of the business network is a business network definition that contains the formal description of assets, participants, transactions, and events. We're going to examine this for the letter of credit application. By the end of this chapter, you'll be able understand how the network is implemented and accessed by the application. Moreover, you'll have the knowledge to build your own network and applications that consume it.

The Playground

If you move to the next tab in the demo, you'll find the Hyperledger Composer Playground has been opened for you:

The Playground is a tool that will allow you to investigate the business network. The initial view of Playground contains a wallet full of business network cards. Just like a real wallet, these cards allow you to connect to different networks. When you use a particular card to connect to a network, you act as a different participant. This is useful for testing the network. Let's connect to the network...