Virtual box

Virtual box image ubuntu14.04odl_dev.qcow

RAM 3Gb, HDD 200G LVM

User: odldev; pwd: odldev

Java 7

Maven 3.3.3

The process to get start with developing an ODL controller is documented in a series of steps.

Resulting status of each step was committed to git branch with stepname, e.g., step0. Use “git branch -a” to see all committed step and “git checkout branchname” to switch to each step. “git diff” is also useful to see what exactly has been changed.

This step generates necessary modules to start developing ODL controller. Following are summary of what has been done in this step.

• Change to working directory and generate project from archetype

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=org.opendaylight.controller \
  -DarchetypeRepository=http://nexus.opendaylight.org/content/repositories/opendaylight.snapshot/ \
  -DarchetypeCatalog=http://nexus.opendaylight.org/content/repositories/opendaylight.snapshot/archetype-catalog.xml -DappName=MMA

• Execute generate module to complete the generation.
• Generate karaf distribution module from archetype

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=org.opendaylight.controller \
  -DarchetypeRepository=http://nexus.opendaylight.org/content/repositories/opendaylight.snapshot/ \
  -DarchetypeCatalog=http://nexus.opendaylight.org/content/repositories/opendaylight.snapshot/archetype-catalog.xml

Make more structured maven project to avoid inconsistent dependency in modules.

• Create parent pom module
• Change parent declaration in other modules: model, provider, distribution-karaf

• Clone and adapt provider module
  • Rename yang module configuration file and module_name the file
  • Rename initial xml file and update pom.xml
  • Remove old classes in org.opendaylight.controller namespace
• Update features module
• Update distribution module