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The OpenWS library provides a growing set of tools to work with web services at a low level. These tools include classes for creating and reading SOAP messages, transport-independent clients for connecting to web services, and various transports for use with those clients.

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package org.opensaml.ws.transport;

import org.opensaml.xml.security.credential.Credential;

/**
 * Base interface for inbound and outbound transports.
 */
public interface Transport {

    /**
     * Gets a transport-specific attribute.
     * 
     * @param name name of the attribute
     * 
     * @return attribute value
     */
    public Object getAttribute(String name);

    /**
     * Gets the character encoding of the transport.
     * 
     * @return character encoding of the transport
     */
    public String getCharacterEncoding();

    /**
     * Gets the local credential used to authenticate to the peer.
     * 
     * @return local credential used to authenticate to the peer
     */
    public Credential getLocalCredential();

    /**
     * Gets the credential offered by the peer to authenticate itself.
     * 
     * @return credential offered by the peer to authenticate itself
     */
    public Credential getPeerCredential();

    /**
     * Gets whether the peer is authenticated.
     * 
     * @return whether the peer is authenticated
     */
    public boolean isAuthenticated();

    /**
     * Sets whether the peer is authenticated.
     * 
     * @param isAuthenticated whether the peer is authenticated
     */
    public void setAuthenticated(boolean isAuthenticated);

    /**
     * Gets whether the transport represents a confidential connection (e.g. an SSL connection).
     * 
     * @return whether the transport represents a confidential connection
     */
    public boolean isConfidential();

    /**
     * Sets whether the transport represents a confidential connection.
     * 
     * @param isConfidential whether the transport represents a confidential connection
     */
    public void setConfidential(boolean isConfidential);

    /**
     * Gets whether the transport represents a connection that protects the integrity of transported content.
     * 
     * @return whether the transport represents a connection that protects the integrity of transported content
     */
    public boolean isIntegrityProtected();

    /**
     * Sets whether the transport represents a connection that protects the integrity of transported content.
     * 
     * @param isIntegrityProtected whether the transport represents a connection that protects the integrity of
     *            transported content
     */
    public void setIntegrityProtected(boolean isIntegrityProtected);
}