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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

Programming language

As we discovered earlier in the chapter, at the heart of Hyperledger Fabric is an immutable log of multi-party transactions. This idea transcends any given programming language; indeed, we'd really like as many participants as possible to participate in a network of multi-party transactions.

Moreover, given we have a decentralized system where different organizations develop different smart contracts and applications, it's just not feasible to suggest that only one programming language can be used.

This joint desire and need for language openness is why Hyperledger Fabric allows multiple programming languages to be used for smart contract and application development. At the time of writing, the most popular programming languages are JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, and Golang, and support for these is built into Fabric. Additionally, the Hyperledger Burrow project allows developers to write smart contracts in Solidity, a programming language used...