If you want to develop for ODTN project you should first get ONOS . Please follow the instructions in the following link to setup development environment for ONOS:
And the following link describes a simple "local" workflow where you build and run ONOS on a single development machine.
Note 1: For ODTN development purposes you should checkout master branch.
Note 2: Before launching ONOS please export these apps:
export ONOS_APPS=odtn-service,roadm,gui2
Note 3: You also need to install *netconf-console* that is a console application for interacting with NETCONF servers built on top of ncclient as follows.
pip3 install netconf-console
Note 4: You also need to make sure ncclient version 0.6.3 is installed on your machine. If higher versions of ncclient installed on your machine, you need to reinstall it as follows:
pip3 install ncclient==0.6.3
A good starting point to get familiar with ODTN project is using ODTN emulators and ONOS together. You can find more info about that here:
Then you can follow one of these guides to setup a phase 1.0 demo as a base: