github.com/DFWallet/tendermint-cosmos@v0.0.2/abci/README.md (about)

     1  # Application BlockChain Interface (ABCI)
     2  
     3  Blockchains are systems for multi-master state machine replication.
     4  **ABCI** is an interface that defines the boundary between the replication engine (the blockchain),
     5  and the state machine (the application).
     6  Using a socket protocol, a consensus engine running in one process
     7  can manage an application state running in another.
     8  
     9  Previously, the ABCI was referred to as TMSP.
    10  
    11  The community has provided a number of additional implementations, see the [Tendermint Ecosystem](https://github.com/tendermint/awesome#ecosystem)
    12  
    13  
    14  ## Installation & Usage
    15  
    16  To get up and running quickly, see the [getting started guide](../docs/app-dev/getting-started.md) along with the [abci-cli documentation](../docs/app-dev/abci-cli.md) which will go through the examples found in the [examples](./example/) directory.
    17  
    18  ## Specification
    19  
    20  A detailed description of the ABCI methods and message types is contained in:
    21  
    22  - [The main spec](https://github.com/tendermint/spec/blob/master/spec/abci/abci.md)
    23  - [A protobuf file](./types/types.proto)
    24  - [A Go interface](./types/application.go)
    25  
    26  ## Protocol Buffers
    27  
    28  To compile the protobuf file, run (from the root of the repo):
    29  
    30  ```sh
    31  make protoc_abci
    32  ```
    33  
    34  See `protoc --help` and [the Protocol Buffers site](https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers)
    35  for details on compiling for other languages. Note we also include a [GRPC](https://www.grpc.io/docs)
    36  service definition.