Interface UUIDGen

  • All 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].
    Since:
    JDK1.2.2
    Version:
    1.0 11/7/2000
    Author:
    Steve Viens
    • Method Detail

      • nextUUID

        java.lang.String nextUUID()