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=== Client Applications

Client Applications represent web applications (including <<secure-remote-access,SRA>>) allowed to integrate with
<<web-access,WA>>.

Depending on the communication protocol, the following client applications are supported:

* OpenID Connect Relying Party
* SAML 2.0 Service Provider
* CAS Service

When defining a client application, the following parameters shall be specified:

. id - unique number identifier of the current client application
. <<realms,realm>> - used to inherit policies
. name - regular expression to match requests
. description - optional textual description
. username attribute provider, mapping to
https://apereo.github.io/cas/6.6.x/integration/Attribute-Release-PrincipalId-Attribute.html[CAS Attribute-based Principal Id^]
. <<policies-authentication,authentication policy>>
. <<policies-access,access policy>>
. <<policies-attribute-release,attribute release policy>>
. <<policies-ticket-expiration,ticket expiration policy>>
. additional properties

More parameters are required to be specified depending on the actual client application type.

[NOTE]
Client Applications are dynamically translated into
https://apereo.github.io/cas/6.6.x/services/Service-Management.html[CAS Services^].
