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package org.jasig.cas.ticket;
import java.io.Serializable;
/**
* Strategy that determines if the ticket is expired. Implementations of the
* Expiration Policy define their own rules on what they consider an expired
* Ticket to be.
*
* @author Scott Battaglia
* @since 3.0
* <p>
* This is a published and supported CAS Server 3 API.
* </p>
* @see org.jasig.cas.ticket.Ticket
*/
public interface ExpirationPolicy extends Serializable {
/**
* Method to determine if a Ticket has expired or not, based on the policy.
*
* @param ticketState The snapshot of the current ticket state
* @return true if the ticket is expired, false otherwise.
*/
boolean isExpired(TicketState ticketState);
}