# Good start for developing

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/good-start-for-developing/9253>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [October 29, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/good-start-for-developing/9253 "2014-10-29T16:10:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![DrFatalis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aca169/32.png) [@DrFatalis](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/DrFatalis)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/good-start-for-developing/9253/1 "2014-10-29T16:10:00Z")

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Hi everyone,

I signed in this afternoon and download the ignition SDK too.  
I have some questions about what is possible or not with this SDK.

First I will explain what I want to do and if you can tell me if it’s possible it could be great 🙂

I would like to integrate in my java application a light opc client.  
I would like to have the following features:

- network discovery to see all opc server on the network
- read value in real time

Is it possible to do that ? Is it full java or java-python ?

Is there a procedure to set up a applaication base -\> how to create an opc client object, document with example and methods list (different than javadoc of course)

Thx for your help guys !

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/good-start-for-developing/9253/2 "2014-10-29T16:28:11Z")

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The Ignition SDK is for developing modules for the Ignition platform; it is not a general purpose OPC-UA SDK.

You’ll want to find an OPC-UA SDK to accomplish what you’re trying to do.

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**Author:** ![DrFatalis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aca169/32.png) [@DrFatalis](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/DrFatalis)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/good-start-for-developing/9253/3 "2014-10-29T16:53:26Z")

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So there is no librairy in java or python that could allow me to create an opc client for opc ignition ?☹

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2014, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/good-start-for-developing/9253/4 "2014-10-29T17:11:15Z")

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Not currently, at least as a component of our SDK.

There are various commercial and open source OPC-UA projects out there that you can take a look at if you need to create an OPC-UA client.