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[![CircleCI](https://circleci.com/gh/tendermint/abci.svg?style=svg)](https://circleci.com/gh/tendermint/abci) |
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Blockchains are a system for multi-master state machine replication. |
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Blockchains are a system for multi-master state machine replication. |
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**ABCI** is an interface that defines the boundary between the replication engine (the blockchain), |
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and the state machine (the application). |
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By using a socket protocol, we enable a consensus engine running in one process |
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Previously, the ABCI was referred to as TMSP. |
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Other implementations: |
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* [cpp-tmsp](https://github.com/mdyring/cpp-tmsp) by Martin Dyring-Andersen |
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* [js-abci](https://github.com/tendermint/js-abci) |
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* [jABCI](https://github.com/jTendermint/jabci) for Java |
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* C++ [cpp-tmsp](https://github.com/mdyring/cpp-tmsp) by Martin Dyring-Andersen |
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* JavaScript [js-abci](https://github.com/tendermint/js-abci) |
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* Java [jABCI](https://github.com/jTendermint/jabci) |
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* Erlang [abci_server](https://github.com/KrzysiekJ/abci_server) by Krzysztof Jurewicz |
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# Specification |
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The [primary specification](https://github.com/tendermint/abci/blob/master/types/types.proto) is made using Protocol Buffers. |
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To build it, run |
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To build it, run |
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make protoc |
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## Socket |
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ABCI is best implemented as a streaming protocol. |
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ABCI is best implemented as a streaming protocol. |
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The socket implementation provides for asynchronous, ordered message passing over unix or tcp. |
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Messages are serialized using Protobuf3 and length-prefixed. |
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Protobuf3 doesn't have an official length-prefix standard, so we use our own. The first byte represents the length of the big-endian encoded length. |
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## GRPC |
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GRPC is an rpc framework native to Protocol Buffers with support in many languages. |
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Implementing the ABCI using GRPC can allow for faster prototyping, but is expected to be much slower than |
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Implementing the ABCI using GRPC can allow for faster prototyping, but is expected to be much slower than |
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the ordered, asynchronous socket protocol. |
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Note the length-prefixing used in the socket implementation does not apply for GRPC. |
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