Chapter 7. Building SDN Applications for OpenDaylight
In this chapter, you will learn how to build an SDN application on top of OpenDaylight. We will have a detailed review of an SDN NAC application. You will also learn the application framework of OpenDaylight and understand how to build plugins, applications and how to integrate them to the OpenDayLight packet processing engine.
Along with building this OpenDaylight application, we will cover the following topics:
- What is NAC?
- Understanding the OpenDaylight SAL
- Difference between plugins and applications
- Building a practical SDN app