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 The ledger will be available at http://localhost:5050/ledger and the executor 
 will be available at http://localhost:5051/executor
 
-
-## How to make a distributed transaction (in a ratpack application)
-
 Once you have the executor and the ledger configured and running, you can start making transactions to the database 
 the executor is connected to.
 
 By default the executor will set up an in-memory database without any tables, so the first transaction you want to make
 is to create the table you want.
 
+The preferred way would be to use one the libraries provided to communicate with the ledger, but you can also try out
+the functionality by posting JSON directly to the ledger.
+
+
+#### Creating a transaction
+
+Here is an example transaction you can POST to the ledger. In this example we post a completed transaction which will be 
+executed immediatly after registering with the ledger. If you want to postpone execution set to *completed* property to false.
+
+POST http://localhost:5050/ledger
+```json
+{
+    "completed" : true,
+	"queries": [
+		{ "query" : "CREATE TABLE foo(bar INT)" },
+		{ "query" : "INSERT INTO foo (bar) VALUES (5)" },
+		{ "query" : "SELECT * FROM foo" }		
+	]
+}
+```
+
+The response you will get back looks something like this
+```json
+{
+	"id": "5db5f0d506994a54b6482f587a953c43",
+	"queries": [
+		{
+			"query": "CREATE TABLE foo(bar INT)",
+			"id": "d1e2a4d4d5b3233ef07bc52ad935f459da26e5917c542c499541538156007d94",
+			"parent": "5db5f0d506994a54b6482f587a953c43",
+			"timeStamp": 1528306534048,
+			"result": null,
+			"resultError": null
+		},
+		{
+			"query": "INSERT INTO foo (bar) VALUES (5)",
+			"id": "c3df3ea4402f4b4aa0ffec1fd728fe00a013106a46719846362b9629b5a3e4f6",
+			"parent": "d1e2a4d4d5b3233ef07bc52ad935f459da26e5917c542c499541538156007d94",
+			"timeStamp": 1528306534050,
+			"result": null,
+			"resultError": null
+		},
+		{
+			"query": "SELECT * FROM foo",
+			"id": "ef59de620262b5a41c2944f9539c27dd375e1123d6c43b1251f407ae6c34ec59",
+			"parent": "c3df3ea4402f4b4aa0ffec1fd728fe00a013106a46719846362b9629b5a3e4f6",
+			"timeStamp": 1528306534050,
+			"result": {
+				"BAR": [
+					5
+				]
+			},
+			"resultError": null
+		}
+	],
+	"completed": true,
+	"executed": true,
+	"rolledback": false
+}
+```
+
+As you can see, the queries were made and the results returned successfully. 
+
+The ledger will automatically create the necessery hashes for the blockchain. 
+
+#### Viewing the ledger
+
+If you do a GET request to the ledger URL (http://localhost:5050/ledger) you can see all transactions and their state.
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