PharmaLedger - Decentralised Clinical Trial

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• PharmaLedger - Decentralised Clinical Trial
  • Team Members
  • Architecture
  • Documentation
  • Requirements
    • Java
    • Gradle
  • Install CorDapp
    • Build the project from root directory
    • Deploy Nodes
    • Launcing CorDapp
  • Install CorDapp using Docker
  • Running Middleware
  • Running Frontend
  • Future Developments
  • Demo

Team Members

Name	Degree	Mail Address
Anand Devarajan	Master in Informatics	[email protected]
Christoph Hanus	Master in Management and Technology	[email protected]
Lukas Volpers	Master in Management and Technology	[email protected]
Thandayuthapani Subramanian	Master in Informatics	[email protected]

Architecture

Documentation

Project has been structured into main sub-directories - ./contracts, ./workflows, ./pharma-client, ./medical-client, ./logistics-client.
./contracts - Contains Corda states and Corda Contracts
./workflows - Contains Corda flows used for creating transactions between different Corda nodes
./pharma-client - Acts as middleware between Pharma UI portal and Corda Ledger
./medical-client - Acts as middleware between Medical UI portal and Corda Ledger
./logistics-client - Acts as middleware between Logistics UI portal and Corda Ledger

Requirements

• Java 8
• Gradle
• Docker and Docker Compose (Optional)

Java

Install the Java 8 JDK. Corda requires at least version 8u171, but do not currently support Java 9 or higher for this version of Corda.

Gradle

Corda requires a Gradle version between 5.1 and 5.6.4, and does not support Gradle 6.x.

Install CorDapp

Once all the requirements are installed. CorDapp can be deployed by following steps:

Build the project from root directory

./gradlew clean build

Deploy Nodes

./gradlew deployNodes

Above command, creates node directory inside ./build directory. Each node in ./build/nodes direcory is structed as follows: In our project there are 4 nodes - Notary, Pharma, Medical Logistics

. nodeName
├── additional-node-infos
├── certificates
├── corda.jar              // The Corda node runtime
├── cordapps               // The node's CorDapps
│   ├── config
│   ├── corda-example-contracts-0.1.jar
│   └── corda-example-workflows-0.1.jar
├── djvm
├── drivers
├── logs
├── network-parameters
├── node.conf              // The node's configuration file
├── nodeInfo-<HASH>        // The hash will be different each time you generate a node
├── persistence.mv.db      // The node's database
└── persistence.trace.db   // The node's database

Launcing CorDapp

To start the nodes, we can use runnodes script in ./build/nodes/runnodes.

./build/nodes/runnodes

Or, nodes can be run seperately by running following command -

java -jar corda.jar

from following node directories - ./build/nodes/Notary, ./build/nodes/Pharma, ./build/nodes/Medical, ./build/nodes/Logistics.

Install CorDapp using Docker

Conversely, one can deploy CorDapp as containers using following command:

./gradlew deployNodesDocker

This command would create nodes directory inside ./build directory. We can launch CorDapps by running following command from project root directory:

docker-compose -f ./build/nodes/docker-compose.yml up

Running Middleware

Once CorDapp is deployed, launch REST client for Corda Nodes by running following commands from project root directory.

# Pharma Client
./gradlew runPartyPharmaServer

# Medical Client
./gradlew runPartyMedicalServer

# Logistics Client
./gradlew runPartyLogisticsServer

Running Frontend

Frontend for this project is maintained in other repo - PharmaLedger WebApp. We have UI portal for different actors in PharmaLedger - Pharma, Medical, Logistics. Steps to deploy different UIs are provided in following link:

Pharma UI - Pharma
Medical UI - Medical
Logistics UI - Logistics

Future Developments

Future developments of this project will be done in following repository: PharmaLedger, PharmaLedger-WebApp

Demo

Demo of this project can be found in following link: Demo