Blockchain Development with Hyperledger

External versus explicit events

We can see, therefore, that events fall into two categories—external events and explicit events. We don't often think of these two terms as opposites, but they neatly describe the two different types of events in a business network. Our first event type is an external event—it is generated externally to the business network. This event will be processed by participants, and as such will likely result in a transaction—don't forget, only think about significant events—ones that will result in an action. With an external event, a significant amount of the event content is captured as transaction input, but nothing else about the event is remembered. If we want so save an external event, we generate an explicit ...