Smart Contracts

Developers have the choice of two languages for writing smart contracts:

Solidity

The flagship language of Ethereum, and most popular language for smart contracts.

LISP Like Language (LLL)

A low level language, Serpent provides a superset of LLL. There's not a great deal of information for working with LLL, the following blog /var/log/syrinx and associated lll-resurrected GitHub repository is a good place to start.

In order to deploy a smart contract onto the Ethereum blockchain, it must first be compiled into a bytecode format, then it can be sent as part of a transaction. Web3j can do all of this for you with its Solidity smart contract wrappers. To understand what is happening behind the scenes, you can refer to the details in Creation of a smart contract. Given that Solidity is the language of choice for writing smart contracts, it is the language supported by Web3j, and is used for all subsequent examples.

Examples

Please refer to EIP-20 Ethereum token standard smart contract