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  • Release notes

    • Release files and checksums

    • Third-party software licence information

    • Release notes (Japanese)

  • Upgrading CorDapps and nodes

    • Corda features and versions

    • Upgrading CorDapps to newer Platform Versions

    • Upgrading your node to Corda 4.7

    • Corda and Corda Enterprise compatibility

  • Corda API

    • API: Contracts

    • API: Contract Constraints

    • API: Core types

    • API: Flows

    • API: Identity

    • API: Persistence

    • API: RPC operations

    • API: Service Classes

    • API: ServiceHub

    • API: States

    • API: Testing

    • API: Transactions

    • API: Vault Query

  • Development

    • Key concepts

      • Network

      • Ledger

      • States

      • Transactions

      • Contracts

      • Flows

      • Consensus

      • Notaries

      • Vault

        • Soft Locking

      • Time-windows

      • Oracles

      • Nodes

      • Transaction tear-offs

      • Trade-offs

      • Deterministic JVM

    • CorDapps

      • What is a CorDapp?

      • Getting set up for CorDapp development

      • Running a sample CorDapp

      • Structuring a CorDapp

      • Building and installing a CorDapp

      • Building CorDapps against a non-release branch

      • Debugging a CorDapp

      • Secure coding guidelines

      • Configuring Responder Flows

      • Starting a flow with a client-provided unique ID

      • Flow cookbook

    • Tutorials

      • Hello, World!

        • Obtaining the CorDapp Template

        • Writing the state

        • Writing the flow

        • Running your CorDapp

        • Applying contract constraints

          • Writing the contract

          • Updating the flow

      • Core tutorials

        • Writing contracts

        • Writing contract tests

        • Building transactions

        • Writing flows

        • Writing flow tests

        • Integration testing

      • Supplementary tutorials

        • Scheduling time-based events

        • Upgrading contracts

        • Working with attachments

        • Defining transaction tear-offs

        • Posting transactions to observer nodes

        • Writing oracle services

        • Writing a custom notary service (experimental)

        • Working with the CordaRPCClient API

    • Tools

      • Corda Network Builder

      • Network Bootstrapper

      • DemoBench

      • Checkpoint Tooling

    • Node internals

      • Node services

      • Networking and messaging

    • Component library

      • Contract catalogue

      • Financial model

      • Interest rate swaps

    • Tokens SDK

      • Selection in the Tokens SDK

      • Tokens SDK evolvable token example

    • Serialization

      • Object serialization

      • Pluggable Serializers for CorDapps

      • Pluggable serializers for CorDapp checkpoints

      • Default Class Evolution

      • Enum Evolution

      • JSON

      • Blob Inspector

      • Wire format

    • Reissuing states

    • Versioning and upgrades

      • API stability guarantees

      • Versioning

      • Release new CorDapp versions

      • CorDapp constraints migration

      • CorDapp Upgradeability Guarantees

    • Advanced CorDapp concepts

    • Troubleshooting

    • Deterministic Corda Modules

  • Operations

    • Nodes

      • Node folder structure

      • Node identity

      • Node configuration

      • Configuration fields

      • Node command-line options

      • Node administration

      • Deploying a node to a server

      • Database access when running H2

      • Database tables

      • Upgrading CorDapps on a node

      • Node shell

      • Interacting with a node

        • Node error codes

      • Creating nodes locally

      • Running nodes locally

      • Flow Hospital

      • Node Explorer

    • Networks

      • What is a compatibility zone?

      • Network certificates

      • The network map

      • Cipher suites supported by Corda

      • Joining an existing compatibility zone

      • Joining Corda Testnet

      • Deploying Corda to Testnet

        • Deploying Corda to Corda Testnet from an Azure Cloud Platform VM

        • Deploying Corda to Corda Testnet from an AWS Cloud Platform VM

        • Deploying Corda to Corda Testnet from a Google Cloud Platform VM

        • Deploying Corda to Corda Testnet from your local environment

        • Using the Node Explorer to test a Corda node on Corda Testnet

      • Setting up a dynamic compatibility zone

      • Setting up a notary service

      • Managing Business Network membership

    • Official Corda Docker Image

    • Load testing

    • Shell extensions for CLI Applications

  • Corda Network Foundation

    • Corda Network Pre-Production environment

  • Participate

    • Contributing philosophy

    • How to contribute

    • Building Corda

    • Testing your changes

    • Checking API stability

    • Build the documentation

    • Code style guide

    • CLI UX Guide

    • Extending the state machine

    • Flow framework internals

Contributing

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Contributing

Corda is an open-source project and contributions are welcome!

  • Contributing philosophy
  • How to contribute
  • Building Corda
  • Testing your changes
  • Checking API stability
  • Building the documentation
  • Code style guide
  • CLI UX Guide
  • Extending the state machine
  • Flow framework internals

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