org.apache.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()
java.lang.String	nextUUID()

Method Detail

init

public void init()

destroy

public void destroy()

nextUUID

public java.lang.String nextUUID()