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What's included?
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The Corda prototype currently includes:
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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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* Algorithms that work with them, such as serialising, hashing, signing, and verification of the signatures.
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* API documentation and tutorials (what you're reading).
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* A business process orchestration framework.
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* Notary infrastructure for precise timestamping, and elimination of double spending without a blockchain.
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* A simple REST API, and a web app demo that uses it to present a frontend for IRS trading.
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Some things it does not currently include but should gain later are:
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* Sandboxing, distribution or publication of smart contract code
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* A user interface for administration
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The prototype's goal is rapid exploration of ideas. Therefore in places it takes shortcuts that a production system
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would not in order to boost productivity:
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* It uses an object graph serialization framework instead of a well specified, vendor neutral protocol.
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* There's currently no permissioning framework.
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* Some privacy techniques aren't implemented yet.
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* It uses an embedded SQL database and doesn't yet have connectivity support for mainstream SQL vendors (Oracle,
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Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server etc).
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Kotlin
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Corda is written in a language called `Kotlin <https://kotlinlang.org/>`_. Kotlin is a language that targets the JVM
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and can be thought of as a simpler Scala, with much better Java interop. It is developed by and has commercial support
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from JetBrains, the makers of the IntelliJ IDE and other popular developer tools.
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As Kotlin is very new, without a doubt you have not encountered it before. Don't worry: it is designed as a better
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Java for industrial use and as such, the syntax was carefully designed to be readable even to people who don't know
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the language, after only a few minutes of introduction.
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Due to the seamless Java interop the use of Kotlin to extend the platform is *not* required and the tutorial shows how
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to write contracts in both Kotlin and Java. You can `read more about why Kotlin is a potentially strong successor to Java here <https://medium.com/@octskyward/why-kotlin-is-my-next-programming-language-c25c001e26e3>`_. |