org.jboss.axis.components.uuid
Interface UUIDGen

All Known Implementing Classes:
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].

Since:
JDK1.2.2
Version:
1.0 11/7/2000
Author:
Steve Viens

Method Summary
 void destroy()
           
 void init()
           
 String nextUUID()
           
 

Method Detail

init

void init()

destroy

void destroy()

nextUUID

String nextUUID()


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