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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

Examining the live network


Great–now that we've seen how the types of participants, assets, transactions, and events are defined in the business network, let's see how instances of these types are created. The Playground tool has another feature that is very nice–it allows us to look inside the business network, while it's running, to see instances of these types, and select the Test tab at the top of the Playground page:

You'll see that the view has changed a little. On the left-hand side, we can see the participants, assets, and transactions that have been defined for this business network: Bank, BankEmployee, Customer, and LetterOfCredit, as well as transactions. You can select these, and as you do, you'll see that the right-hand pane changes. Try it!

Select the LetterOfCredit asset, and on the right-hand pane, you'll see the following (expand the view with Show All):

Wow–this is interesting! This is an actual letter of credit from our application. Let's have a look at the letter in detail...