org.apache.axis.components.uuid

Interface UUIDGen

Known Implementing Classes:
FastUUIDGen, SimpleUUIDGen

public interface UUIDGen

A Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) is a 128 bit number generated according to an algorithm that is garanteed to be unique in time and space from all other UUIDs. It consists of an IEEE 802 Internet Address and various time stamps to ensure uniqueness. For a complete specification, see ftp://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-leach-uuids-guids-01.txt [leach].

Version:
1.0 11/7/2000

Author:
Steve Viens

Since:
JDK1.2.2

Method Summary

String
nextUUID()

Method Details

nextUUID

public String nextUUID()


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