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Major changes due to JDK 17: 1. JDK17 JCE Provider now has built-in support for eddsas, corda uses the bouncycastle (i2p) implementation. This PR removes the conflicting algorithms from the built-in JCE provider. 2. JavaScript scripting has been removed from the JDK, the corda log4j config was using scripting to conditionally output additional diagnostic info if the MDC was populated. This PR has removed the scripting. 3. The artifactory plug-ins used are now deprecated, this PR has removed them and uses the same code as Corda 5 for publishing to artifactory. 4. Javadoc generation has been modified to use the latest dokka plug-ins. 5. Gradle 7.6 has implemented an incredibly annoying change where transitive dependencies are not put on the compile classpath, so that they have to be explicitly added as dependencies to projects. 6. Mockito has been updated, which sadly meant that quite a few source files have to changes to use the new (org.mockito.kotlin) package name. This makes this PR appear much larger than it is. 7. A number of tests have been marked as ignored to get a green, broadly they fall into 3 classes. The first is related to crypto keypair tests, it appears some logic in the JDK prefers to use the SunJCE implementation and we prefer to use bouncycastle. I believe this issue can be fixed with better test setup. The second group is related to our use of a method called "uncheckedCast(..)", the purpose of this method was to get rid of the annoying unchecked cast compiler warning that would otherwise exist. It looks like the Kotlin 1.9 compiler type inference differs and at runtime sometimes the type it infers is "Void" which causes an exception at runtime. The simplest solution is to use an explicit cast instead of unchecked cast, Corda 5 have removed unchecked cast from their codebase. The third class are a number of ActiveMQ tests which appear to have a memory leak somewhere. |
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IRS Demo
This demo brings up three nodes: Bank A, Bank B and a node that simultaneously runs a notary, a network map and an interest rates oracle. The two banks agree on an interest rate swap, and then do regular fixings of the deal as the time on a simulated clock passes.
Functionality is split into two parts - CordApp which provides actual distributed ledger backend and Spring Boot webapp which provides REST API and web frontend. Application communicate using Corda RPC protocol.
To run from the command line in Unix:
- Run
./gradlew samples:irs-demo:cordapp:deployNodes
to install configs and a command line tool undersamples/irs-demo/cordapp/build
- Run
./gradlew samples:irs-demo:web:deployWebapps
to install configs and tools for running webservers - Move to the
samples/irs-demo/
directory - Run
./cordapp/build/nodes/runnodes
to open up three new terminals with the three nodes (you may have to install xterm) - On Linux, run
./web/build/webapps/runwebapps.sh
to open three more terminals for associated webservers. On macOS, use the following command instead:osascript ./web/build/webapps/runwebapps.scpt
To run from the command line in Windows:
- Run
gradlew.bat samples:irs-demo:cordapp:deployNodes
to install configs and a command line tool undersamples\irs-demo\build
- Run
gradlew.bat samples:irs-demo:web:deployWebapps
to install configs and tools for running webservers - Run
cd samples\irs-demo
to change current working directory - Run
cordapp\build\nodes\runnodes.bat
to open up several 3 terminals for each nodes - Run
web\build\webapps\runwebapps.bat
to open up several 3 terminals for each nodes' webservers
This demo also has a web app. To use this, run nodes and then navigate to http://localhost:10007/ and http://localhost:10010/ to see each node's view of the ledger.
To use the web app, click the "Create Deal" button, fill in the form, then click the "Submit" button. You can then use the time controls at the top left of the home page to run the fixings. Click any individual trade in the blotter to view it.
Note: The IRS web UI currently has a bug when changing the clock time where it may show no numbers or apply fixings inconsistently. The issues will be addressed in a future release. Meanwhile, you can take a look at a simpler oracle example here: https://github.com/corda/oracle-example.
Running the system test
The system test utilizes Docker. The amount of RAM required to run the IRS system test is around 2.5GB, so it is important to make sure the appropriate system resources are allocated (On MacOS/Windows this may require explicit changes to your Docker configuration).
Gradle
The system test is designed to exercise the entire stack, including Corda nodes and the web frontend. It uses Docker,
docker-compose, and
PhantomJS. Docker and docker-compose need to be installed and configured to on the system path
(which happens by default). The PhantomJs binary has to be put in a known location and needs execution permissions enabled
(chmod a+x phantomjs
on *nix) and the full path to the binary needs to be available as system property named phantomjs.binary.path
or
an environment variable named PHANTOMJS_BINARY_PATH
.
To start the test, run :samples:irs-demo:systemTest
.
Other
In order to run the test by other means than the Gradle task - two more environment variables are expected -
CORDAPP_DOCKER_COMPOSE
and WEB_DOCKER_COMPOSE
which should specify the full path for the docker-compose files for the IRS cordapp
and web frontend respectively. Those can be obtained by running the :samples:irs-demo:cordapp:prepareDockerNodes
and
web:generateDockerCompose
Gradle tasks. The :samples:irs-demo:systemTest
Gradle task simply executes these two tasks and sets up the
correct environment variables.