R3 Corda Blockchain Training: CorDapps Development

Course Overview

Learn how to write CorDapp using secure programming guidelines. This class will exclusively cover Corda nodes, Corda transactions and Corda tools through a comprehensive deep dive.

This course has been meticulously put together and taught by world-class subject matter experts. The live training expert will spend over 50% of the time on labs covering the steps to integrate/develop an application with R3 Corda. There are use cases, proof of concepts, as well as interactive hands-on labs.

Target Audience

This course is designed for programmers and developers.

Course Objectives

What you'll learn:

Overview of Corda

• Principal features
• Concepts in Corda
• Consensus mechanism
• Business logic
• Comparisons/Main differences between Corda and Ethereum

Introduction to CorDapp

• What is a CorDapp?
• How to write a CorDapp
• How to upgrade a CorDapp to a new version
• Corda API
• Object serialization
• Secure programming guidelines

Corda Nodes

• Local nodes and how to execute them
• Deploying a Corda node
• Node configuration guidelines
• The Client RPC
• The Shell
• Node database system
• Node administration basics

Corda Ecosystem

• Setting up the network
• How to permission the network
• The Network Map
• Versioning process

Programming Smart Contracts in Corda

• Writing a smart contract
• Writing a smart contract test
• Upgrading smart contracts
• Integration testing

Client RPC API and Smart Contracts Coding

• Overview of client RPC API
• Whitelisting classes from CorDapp

Transactions

• Overview of Corda transactions
• Life cycle of Corda transactions
• Gathering inputs
• Generating commands
• Generating outputs
• Completing the transactions
• Committing transactions

Modeling Business Processes

• Overview of workflows in Corda and continuation
• A 2-party trading workflow
• Suspendable functions
• White-listed classes and the Corda nodes
• Initiating the workflow
• How to implement the seller and the buyer
• Flow sessions

Corda Tools

• Node Explorer
• Network Simulator
• How to implement Corda Network on AWS Marketplace
• Building a Corda VM from the Azure Marketplace
• Load testing in Corda networks

Troubleshooting the CorDapp

• JVM issues
• IDEA issues
• Slow localhost issues

Course Content

Please see the course objectives.

Course Prerequisites

This course is highly technical and requires students to be comfortable with coding. To prepare for the class you must:

• Provide their own computer (Mac/PC/Linux) (note that all labs are hosted in a virtual environment)
• Have basic programming skills of C/C++ or Java Script
• Understand blockchain concepts