Network Operation and Distributed Application Building
In previous chapters, we established the foundations of a business network and application spanning multiple organizations and stakeholders:
- In Chapter 4, Setting the Stage with a Business Scenario, we configured and ran a barebones trade network from a set of specifications
- In Chapter 5, Designing Smart Contract Transactions and Ledger Data Structure, we built the core of a blockchain application in the form of a set of smart contracts that directly read and manipulate the ledgers that are the systems-of-record for your network
The bulk of the configuration and application logic development is done, but our task is far from finished.
As you can imagine, the contracts, which act on data used by multiple organizations, are sensitive pieces of code that ought to be accessible only via safe channels with built-in protections against misuse. Therefore, it is standard practice among blockchain developers...
