github.com/hyperion-hyn/go-ethereum@v2.4.0+incompatible/docs/Cakeshop/Overview.md (about)

     1  ## What is it?
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     3  [Cakeshop](https://github.com/jpmorganchase/cakeshop) is a set of tools and APIs for working with [Ethereum](https://ethereum.org/)-like ledgers, packaged as a Java web application archive (WAR) that gets you up and running in under 60 seconds.
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     5  Cakeshop can either start up a geth node, which you can then interact with using the Cakeshop front-end, or it can be connected to an Ethereum-like node, such as Quorum, that you already have running. A given Cakeshop instance connects with one node on the blockchain network you connect to.
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     7  ![image](console.png)
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     9  Out of the box you get:
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    12  * **Node Management** - Fully functioning Ethereum node (via geth), setting up a cluster
    13  * **Blockchain Explorer** - view transactions, blocks and contracts, and see historical contract state at a point in time
    14  * **Admin Console** - start & stop nodes, create a cluster and view the overall status of your network
    15  * **Peer Management** - easily discover, add and remove peers
    16  * **Solidity Sandbox** - develop, compile, deploy and interact with Solidity smart contracts
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    18  It provides tools for managing a local blockchain node, setting up clusters,
    19  exploring the state of the chain, and working with contracts.
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    21  The Cakeshop package includes the [tessera](https://github.com/jpmorganchase/tessera) and [constellation](https://github.com/jpmorganchase/constellation) transaction managers, a [Solidity](https://solidity.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) compiler, and all dependencies. Cakeshop will download the latest version of [quorum](https://github.com/jpmorganchase/quorum) and bootnode from [geth](https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum) (to use a different version, see [here](https://github.com/jpmorganchase/cakeshop/blob/master/docs/configuration.md#custom-quorum-binaries))