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# Application BlockChain Interface (ABCI)
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Blockchains are systems for multi-master state machine replication.
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**ABCI** is an interface that defines the boundary between the replication engine (the blockchain),
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and the state machine (the application).
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Using a socket protocol, a consensus engine running in one process
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can manage an application state running in another.
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Previously, the ABCI was referred to as TMSP.
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The community has provided a number of additional implementations, see the [Tendermint Ecosystem](https://github.com/tendermint/awesome#ecosystem)
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## Installation & Usage
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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.
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## Specification
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A detailed description of the ABCI methods and message types is contained in:
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- [The main spec](https://github.com/tendermint/spec/blob/master/spec/abci/abci.md)
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- [A protobuf file](./types/types.proto)
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- [A Go interface](./types/application.go)
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## Protocol Buffers
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To compile the protobuf file, run (from the root of the repo):
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```sh
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make protoc_abci
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```
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See `protoc --help` and [the Protocol Buffers site](https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers)
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for details on compiling for other languages. Note we also include a [GRPC](https://www.grpc.io/docs)
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service definition.
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