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Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839218750

Length 756 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Blockchain

Concepts

Blockchain

Authors (7):

Salman A. Baset

Venkatraman Ramakrishna

Salman Baset

Anthony O'Dowd

Petr Novotny

Nitin Gaur

Luc Desrosiers

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Blockchain – An Enterprise and Industry Perspective

2. Exploring Hyperledger Fabric FREE CHAPTER

3. Business Networks

4. Setting the Stage with a Business Scenario

5. Designing Smart Contract Transactions and Ledger Data Structures

6. Developing Smart Contracts

7. Developing Applications

8. Advanced Topics for Developing Smart Contracts and Applications

9. Network Operation and Distributed Application Building

10. Enterprise Design Patterns and Considerations

11. Agility in a Blockchain Network

12. Governance – A Necessary Evil of Regulated Industries

13. Life in a Blockchain Network

14. Hyperledger Fabric Security

15. Blockchain's Future, Protocol Commercialization, and Challenges Ahead

16. Another Book You May Enjoy

17. Index

Summary

The design and implementation of a well-functioning contract is a complex software engineering task that requires both knowledge of the Fabric architecture, API functions, and at least one of the contract API languages as well as the correct implementation of the business requirements.

In this chapter, we have learned step-by-step how to use VS Code with the IBM Blockchain Platform extension to open and edit contract projects as well as how to use a VS Code integrated local Fabric network to deploy and debug contracts.

We then learned how to implement the contracts of our scenario. We explored the Contract, Context, ClientIdentity, and ChaincodeStub interfaces and classes through which the contract receives requests from clients, explored the access control mechanism, and the various APIs available to the developer to implement contract functionality.

Finally, we learned how to test a contract in the terminal and VS Code, and how to integrate logging functionality...