CAS 3 Ticket Domain Model

public Interface Ticket {

   /**
    * Get the Date at which this Ticket was created.
    */
    public Date getTimestamp();


   /**
    * Returns true if this ticekt as valid, false otherwise.
    */
    public boolean isValid();

}

public Interface TicketGrantingTicket 
    extends Ticket {

   /**
    * Get the Principal which owns this TicketGrantingTicket and may exercise it
    * to obtain a TargettedTicket for authentication to a particular URL. 
    * For instance, in the case of a SSOTicket this Principal is the end user who authenticated
    * to CAS by presentation of Primary Credentials.
    * In the case of a ProxyGrantingTicket, this is the URL to which the PGT was vended.
    */
    public Principal getPrincipal();


   /**
    * Derive from this TicketGrantingTicket a TargettedTicket for use in authenticating
    * to some particular target.
    */
    public TargettedTicket deriveTicket(URL target);

}

public Interface DerivedTicket 
    extends Ticket {

   /**
    * Get the TicketGrantingTicket from which this ticket was derived.
    */
    public TicketGrantingTicket getParent();

}

public Interface TargettedTicket
    extends DerivedTicket {

   /**
    * Get the URL to which this ticket will authenticate.
    */
    public URL getTarget();

   /**
    * Get the chain of principals through which authentication has passed
    * in producing this targetted ticket, starting with the most recent principal
    * and leading back to the originally authenticating User.
    */
    public List getPrincipalChain();

}