The Marist Joint Study implementation of blockchain and its network viewing tools.
Tom Magnusson - Essence - tommagnusson
Daniel Gisolfi - Network Viewer - dgisolfi
Essence is an implementation of a blockchain peer in java. All source code for the peer is located in the /src/edu/marist/jointstudy/essence directory. To run an instance of the Essence API the jar file located in the /out directory can be used. As an example of chaining these peers into a network, located in the same directory is a bash script which will run nine peers on the host machine all connected together within a single network.
To run the sample network use the makefile located in the root of the directory. Run the following make target:
make create_sample_network
When a network of peers is running, a simple visualization of the peers can be built by running the Essence network Viewer. To run the visualiser, run the following make target:
make network_viewer
Once running visit localhost:5000 to see the undirected graph of the network layout.