+In order to build all the projects, as mentioned in the onap wiki https://wiki.onap.org/display/DW/Setting+Up+Your+Development+Environment, the settings.xml (https://git.onap.org/oparent/plain/settings.xml) from the oparent project must be installed in your ~/.m2 folder and referenced by your IDE.
+Once maven is set up properly, go to sdc project and run the command: `mvn clean install`
+
+By default, the "all" maven profile will be executed but others exist:
+* fast-build - A fast build skipping all tests and useless maven plugins (only builds the jars)
+* start-sdc - Once docker containers have been build, triggering this profile starts SDC CS, BE, FE, simulator
+* stop-sdc - Stop all SDC containers started by using the profile "start-sdc"
+* run-integration-tests - This runs only the integration tests against a running SDC started by using "start-sdc" profile.
+* docker - This enables the docker images build for each SDC module
+ **Note: If you're working on Windows, you'll need to define an environment variable on your machine with key `DOCKER_HOST` and value: `tcp://<ip_address>:2375` in order to build and upload local dockers to a local environment.**
+
+More flags to use in the build process are:
+* -DskipITs - Skips integration tests only
+* -DskipTests - Skips unit tests execution and integration tests
+* -DskipUICleanup=true - Skips deleting the UI folders
+* -Djacoco.skip=true - Skips running jacoco tests
+* -DskipPMD - Skips creating a PMD report
+
+## Accessing SDC
+
+After having started SDC with the command `mvn clean install -P start-sdc`, you can access it by accessing this URL: `http://<ip_address>:8285/login`
+
+[Swagger UI](http://localhost:8080/swagger-ui/index.html) lists some endpoints available from catalog-BE. `http://<IP_ADDRESS>:8080/swagger-ui/index.html`
+
+As ONAP AAF is not present, the url provided uses the 8285 simulator ports, just click on the user you want to use for accessing SDC (i.e. Carlos Santana)
+
+For more information regarding using the webseal_simulator please refer to the following guide: [SDC Simulator](https://wiki.onap.org/display/DW/SDC+Simulator)
+
+### SDC Containers
+
+The following table shows the SDC containers found after a maven "start-sdc":
+
+ CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
+ 968a8168e412 onap/sdc-backend-init:latest "/bin/sh -c /home/${…" 9 minutes ago Exited (0) 54 seconds ago sdc-backend-init-1
+ 621c0fda1b0f onap/sdc-backend-all-plugins:latest "sh -c ${JETTY_BASE}…" 9 minutes ago Up 9 minutes 0.0.0.0:4000->4000/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8080->8080/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8443->8443/tcp sdc-backend-all-plugins-1
+ d823078776d8 onap/sdc-onboard-backend:latest "sh -c ${JETTY_BASE}…" 9 minutes ago Up 9 minutes 0.0.0.0:4001->4001/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8081->8081/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8445->8445/tcp, 8080/tcp sdc-onboard-backend-1
+ 4729b0b7f0fe onap/sdc-simulator:latest "sh -c ${JETTY_BASE}…" 9 minutes ago Up 9 minutes 0.0.0.0:8285->8080/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8286->8443/tcp sdc-simulator-1
+ 583e0d7fa300 onap/sdc-onboard-cassandra-init:latest "/home/sdc/startup.sh" 9 minutes ago Exited (0) 9 minutes ago sdc-onboard-cassandra-init-1
+ 92085524f19f onap/sdc-cassandra-init:latest "/home/sdc/startup.sh" 10 minutes ago Exited (0) 9 minutes ago sdc-cassandra-init-1
+ c6e90dd7ddaf selenium/standalone-firefox:2.53.1 "/opt/bin/entry_poin…" 10 minutes ago Up 10 minutes 0.0.0.0:4444->4444/tcp standalone-firefox-1
+ e02139c0379b onap/sdc-frontend:latest "sh -c ${JETTY_BASE}…" 10 minutes ago Up 10 minutes 0.0.0.0:6000->6000/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8181->8181/tcp, 0.0.0.0:9443->9443/tcp, 8080/tcp sdc-frontend-1
+ 96843fae9e4c onap/sdc-cassandra:latest "/root/startup.sh" 10 minutes ago Up 10 minutes 7000-7001/tcp, 7199/tcp, 9160/tcp, 0.0.0.0:9042->9042/tcp sdc-cassandra-1