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What's included?
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This Corda early access preview includes:
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* A collection of samples, for instance a web app demo that uses it to implement IRS trading.
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* A template app you can use to get started, and tutorial app that teaches you the basics.
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* A peer to peer network with message persistence and delivery retries.
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* Key data structures for defining contracts and states.
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* Smart contracts, which you can find in the :doc:`contract-catalogue`.
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* API documentation and tutorials (what you're reading).
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* A business process workflow framework.
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* Notary infrastructure for precise timestamping, and elimination of double spending without a blockchain.
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* A simple RPC API.
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* A user interface for administration.
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Some things it does not currently include but should gain later are:
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* Sandboxing, distribution and publication of smart contract code.
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* A well specified wire protocol.
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* An identity framework.
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The open source version of Corda is designed for developers exploring how to write apps. It is not intended to
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be production grade software. For example it uses an embedded SQL database and doesn't yet have connectivity
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support for mainstream SQL vendors (Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server etc). It hasn't been security audited
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and the APIs change in every release.
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Source tree layout
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The Corda repository comprises the following folders:
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* **buildSrc** contains necessary gradle plugins to build Corda.
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* **client** contains libraries for connecting to a node, working with it remotely and binding server-side data to JavaFX UI.
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* **config** contains logging configurations and the default node configuration file.
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* **core** containing the core Corda libraries such as crypto functions, types for Corda's building blocks: states,
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contracts, transactions, attachments, etc. and some interfaces for nodes and protocols.
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* **docs** contains the Corda docsite in restructured text format as well as the built docs in html. The docs can be
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accessed via ``/docs/index.html`` from the root of the repo.
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* **finance** defines a range of elementary contracts (and associated schemas) and protocols, such as abstract fungible
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assets, cash, obligation and commercial paper.
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* **gradle** contains the gradle wrapper which you'll use to execute gradle commands.
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* **gradle-plugins** contains some additional plugins which we use to deploy Corda nodes.
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* **lib** contains some dependencies.
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* **node** contains the core code of the Corda node (eg: node driver, servlets, node services, messaging, persistence).
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* **node-api** contains data structures shared between the node and the client module, e.g. types sent via RPC.
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* **node-schemas** contains entity classes used to represent relational database tables.
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* **samples** contains all our Corda demos and code samples.
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* **test-utils** contains some utilities for unit testing contracts ( the contracts testing DSL) and protocols (the
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mock network) implementation.
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* **tools** contains the explorer which is a GUI front-end for Corda.
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