Reference Guide
Table Of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Establishing Your Test and Development Environments
- 3 Developing Applications
- Introduction
- Authentication
- REST API
- Audit Logging
- Alert Logging
- Configuration
- High Availability
- OpenFlow
- Metrics Framework
- GUI
- SKI Framework - Overview
- SKI Framework - Navigation Tree
- SKI Framework - Hash Navigation
- SKI Framework - View Life-Cycle
- SKI Framework - Live Reference Application
- UI Extension
- Introduction
- Controller Teaming
- Distributed Coordination Service
- Persistence
- Backup and Restore
- Device Driver Framework
- 4 Application Security
- 5 Including Debian Packages with Applications
- 6 Sample Application
- Application Description
- Creating Application Development Workspace
- Application Generator (Automatic Workspace Creation)
- Creating Eclipse Projects
- Updating Project Dependencies
- Building the Application
- Installing the Application
- Application Code
- 7 Testing Applications
- 8 Built-In Applications
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Bibliography
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OSX Snow Leopard or later.
Java
The Software Development Language used is Java SE SDK 1.6 or later. To install Java go to [ 15 ]
and follow the download and installation instructions.
Maven
Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept
of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project's build, reporting and
documentation from a central piece of information [16].
To install Maven go to [16] and follow the download and installation instructions. Note that if you
are behind a fire-wall, you may need to configure your ~/.m2/settings.xml appropriately to
access the Internet-based Maven repositories via proxy, for more information see Maven Cannot
Download Required Libraries on page 251.
Maven 3.0.4 or newer is needed. To verify the installed version of Maven execute the following
command:
$ mvn –version
Curl
Curl (or cURL) is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax. This tool is optional.
Follow the instruction from [17] to install Curl, or if you use Linux Ubuntu as development
environment you may use the Ubuntu Software Center to install it as illustrated in Figure 6.
Figure 6 Installing Curl via Ubuntu Software Center
IDE
An IDE, or an Integrated Development Environment, is a software application that provides a
programmer with many different tools useful for developing. Tools that bundled with an IDE may
include: an editor, a debugger, a compiler, and more. Eclipse is a popular IDE that can be used to
program in Java and for developing applications. Eclipse might be referenced in this guide.
HP VAN SDN Controller SDK
Download the HP VAN SDN Controller SDK from [18]. The SDK is contained in the hp-sdn-sdk-*.zip
file (for example: hp-sdn-sdk-2.0.0.zip). Unzip its contents in any location. To install the SDN
Controller SDK jar files into the local Maven repository, execute the SDK install tool from the
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