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Contracts
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Platform contracts
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There are a number of contracts supplied with Corda, which cover both core functionality (such as cash on ledger) and
provide examples of how to model complex contracts (such as interest rate swaps). There is also a ``Dummy`` contract.

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The Interest Rate Swap Contract
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Interest Rate Swaps
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The Interest Rate Swap (IRS) Contract (source: IRS.kt, IRSUtils.kt, IRSExport.kt) is a bilateral contract to implement a

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messaging
running-the-demos
node-administration
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
:caption: Contracts
contract-catalogue
contract-irs
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2

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Here are brief summaries of what's changed between each snapshot release.
Unreleased
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Milestone 2
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* Big improvements to the interest rate swap app:
* A new web app demonstrating the IRS contract has been added. This can be used as an example for how to interact with
the Corda API from the web.
* Simplifications to the way the demo is used from the command line.
* :doc:`Detailed documentation on how the contract works and can be used <contract-irs>` has been written.
* Better integration testing of the app.
* Smart contracts have been redesigned around reusable components, referred to as "clauses". The cash, commercial paper
and obligation contracts now share a common issue clause.
* New code in the experimental module (note that this module is a place for work-in-progress code which has not yet gone
through code review and which may, in general, not even function correctly):
* Thanks to the prolific Sofus Mortensen @ Nordea Bank, an experimental generic contract DSL that is based on the famous
2001 "Composing contracts" paper has been added. We thank Sofus for this great and promising research, which is so
relevant in the wake of TheDAO hack.
* The contract code from the recent trade finance demos is now in experimental. This code comes thanks to a
collaboration of the members; all credit to:
* Mustafa Ozturk @ Natixis
* David Nee @ US Bank
* Johannes Albertsen @ Dankse Bank
* Rui Hu @ Nordea
* Daniele Barreca @ Unicredit
* Sukrit Handa @ Scotiabank
* Giuseppe Cardone @ Banco Intesa
* Robert Santiago @ BBVA
* The usability of the command line demo programs has been improved.
* All example code and existing contracts have been ported to use the new Java/Kotlin unit testing domain-specific
languages (DSLs) which make it easy to construct chains of transactions and verify them together. This cleans up
and unifies the previous ad-hoc set of similar DSLs. A tutorial on how to use it has been added to the documentation.
We believe this largely completes our testing story for now around smart contracts. Feedback from bank developers
during the Trade Finance project has indicated that the next thing to tackle is docs and usability improvements in
the protocols API.
* Significant work done towards defining the "CorDapp" concept in code, with dynamic loading of API services and more to
come.
* Inter-node communication now uses SSL/TLS and AMQP/1.0, albeit without all nodes self-signing at the moment. A real
PKI for the p2p network will come later.
* Logging is now saved to files with log rotation provided by Log4J.
API changes:
* Some utility methods and extension functions that are specific to certain contract types have moved packages: just
delete the import lines that no longer work and let IntelliJ replace them with the correct package paths.
* The ``arg`` method in the test DSL is now called ``command`` to be consistent with the rest of the data model.
* The messaging APIs have changed somewhat to now use a new ``TopicSession`` object. These APIs will continue to change
in the upcoming releases.
New documentation:
* :doc:`contract-catalogue`
* :doc:`contract-irs`
* :doc:`tutorial-test-dsl`
Milestone 1
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