1 == NetIDE Developer Guide ==
4 The NetIDE Network Engine enables portability and cooperation inside a single
5 network by using a client/server multi-controller architecture. Separate
6 “Client SDN Controllers” host the various SDN Applications with their access
7 to the actual physical network abstracted and coordinated through a single
8 “Server SDN Controller”, in this instance OpenDaylight. This allows
9 applications written for Ryu/Floodlight/Pyretic to execute on OpenDaylight
10 managed infrastructure.
12 The "Network Engine" is modular by design:
13 . An OpenDaylight plugin, "shim", sends/receives messages to/from subscribed SDN Client Controllers. This consumes the ODL Openflow Plugin
14 . An initial suite of SDN Client Controller "Backends": Floodlight, Ryu, Pyretic. Further controllers may be added over time as the engine is extensible.
16 === How to develop with the NetIDE project ===
18 The NetIDE packages can be added as dependencies in Maven projects by putting the
19 following code in the _pom.xml_ file.
22 <groupId>org.opendaylight.netide</groupId>
23 <artifactId>api</artifactId>
24 <version>${NETIDE_VERSION}</version>
27 The current stable version for NetIDE is `0.1.0-Beryllium`.