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Lightweight Java and Android library for integration with Ethereum clients
https://github.com/hyperledger-web3j/web3j

android blockchain ether ethereum java reactivex rxjava smart-contract-tools smart-contracts solidity

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Lightweight Java and Android library for integration with Ethereum clients

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Web3j: Web3 Java Ethereum Ðapp API
==================================

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Web3j is a lightweight, highly modular, reactive, type safe Java and
Android library for working with Smart Contracts and integrating with
clients (nodes) on the Ethereum network:

![image](https://github.com/hyperledger/web3j-docs/blob/main/docs/img/web3j_network.png)

This allows you to work with the [Ethereum](https://www.ethereum.org/)
blockchain, without the additional overhead of having to write your own
integration code for the platform.

The [Java and the Blockchain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea3miXs_P6Y) talk provides
an overview of blockchain, Ethereum and Web3j.

NEW! Get involved!
--------
Since Web3J moved under Hyperledger we started to do Web3J Contributors calls every 2 weeks!
Subscribe to our community page and to see check our call schedule.
Your contribution matters!
- [Community Link](https://lists.hyperledger.org/g/web3j) - Check our last updates!
- [Calendar Invite](https://lists.hyperledger.org/g/web3j/ics/invite.ics?repeatid=57401) - Add the contributor call to your calendar!

Features
--------

- Complete implementation of Ethereum's
[JSON-RPC](https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/JSON-RPC) client
API over HTTP and IPC
- Ethereum wallet support
- Auto-generation of Java smart contract wrappers to create, deploy,
transact with and call smart contracts from native Java code
([Solidity](http://solidity.readthedocs.io/en/latest/using-the-compiler.html#using-the-commandline-compiler)
and
[Truffle](https://github.com/trufflesuite/truffle-contract-schema)
definition formats supported)
- Reactive-functional API for working with filters
- [Ethereum Name Service (ENS)](https://ens.domains/) support
- Support for Parity's
[Personal](https://github.com/paritytech/parity/wiki/JSONRPC-personal-module),
and Geth's
[Personal](https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/wiki/Management-APIs#personal)
client APIs
- Support for [Alchemy](https://docs.alchemyapi.io/alchemy/guides/getting-started#web-3-j) and [Infura](https://infura.io/), so you don't have to run
an Ethereum client yourself
- Comprehensive integration tests demonstrating a number of the above
scenarios
- Command line tools
- Android compatible
- Support for JP Morgan's Quorum via
[web3j-quorum](https://github.com/web3j/quorum)
- Support for [EEA Privacy features as described in EEA
documentation](https://entethalliance.org/technical-documents/) and
implemented in [Hyperledger
Besu](https://besu.hyperledger.org/en/latest/Reference/API-Methods/#eea-methods).

It has five runtime dependencies:

- [RxJava](https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava) for its
reactive-functional API
- [OKHttp](https://square.github.io/okhttp/)
for HTTP connections
- [Jackson Core](https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-core) for fast
JSON serialisation/deserialization
- [Bouncy Castle](https://www.bouncycastle.org/) for
crypto
- [Jnr-unixsocket](https://github.com/jnr/jnr-unixsocket) for \*nix
IPC (not available on Android)
- [Java-WebSocket](https://github.com/TooTallNate/Java-WebSocket)

It also uses [JavaPoet](https://github.com/square/javapoet) for
generating smart contract wrappers.

QuickStart
---------
The simplest way to start your journey with Web3j is to create a project.
We provide this functionality using the [Web3j CLI](http://docs.web3j.io/latest/command_line_tools/). This latter can be installed as follows:

For Unix:

```shell script
curl -L get.web3j.io | sh && source ~/.web3j/source.sh
```

For Windows, in Powershell:

```shell script
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hyperledger/web3j-installer/main/installer.ps1'))
```

Create a new project by running:

```shell script
$ web3j new
```

Or use our [Maven](https://github.com/web3j/web3j-maven-plugin) or
[Gradle](https://github.com/web3j/web3j-gradle-plugin) plugins to
generate java files from Solidity contracts.

#### Please head to the [Web3j Documentation](https://docs.web3j.io) for further instructions on using Web3j.

Maven
-----

Java:

```xml

org.web3j
core
4.12.2

```

**Note:** The Web3j Java binaries are compiled using Java 17. Java 17 or a more recent version is required to use Web3j
as a dependency.

Android:

```xml

org.web3j
core
4.8.9-android

```

Gradle
------

Java:

```groovy
implementation ('org.web3j:core:4.12.2')
```

Android:

```groovy
implementation ('org.web3j:core:4.8.9-android')
```

Build instructions
------------------

Web3j includes integration tests for running against a live Ethereum
client. If you do not have a client running, you can exclude their
execution as per the below instructions.

To run a full build (excluding integration tests):

``` {.sourceCode .bash}
$ ./gradlew check
```

To run the integration tests, you will need to set up these variables in order to pull the Docker
images from the Docker Hub registry:

- `registry.username`
- `registry.password`

Then run the following command:

``` {.sourceCode .bash}
$ ./gradlew -Pintegration-tests=true :integration-tests:test
```

If you do not want the integration test to run:

``` {.sourceCode .bash}
$ ./gradlew -Pintegration-tests=false :test
```

Check the [Docker client API](https://github.com/docker-java/docker-java/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#instantiating-a-dockerclientconfig)
for more information on configuration options.

Projects using Web3j
------------------




Alphawallet logo




Linea logo




ConsenSys logo




ENS logo




Hyperledger Besu logo




Web3Auth logo




Hedera logo




Celo logo




WalletConnect logo




Argent logo




Unstoppable Domains logo




Fnality logo




zksync logo

Commercial support and training
-------------------------------

Commercial support and training is available from
[web3labs.com](https://www.web3labs.com/web3j-sdk).

License
------
Apache 2.0