1 /* 2 * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation. 3 * 4 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 7 * 8 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 9 * 10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 14 * limitations under the License. 15 */ 16 17 /** 18 * 19 * UUIDGen adopted from the juddi project 20 * (http://sourceforge.net/projects/juddi/) 21 * 22 */ 23 24 package org.apache.axis.components.uuid; 25 26 27 /** 28 * A Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) is a 128 bit number generated 29 * according to an algorithm that is garanteed to be unique in time and space 30 * from all other UUIDs. It consists of an IEEE 802 Internet Address and 31 * various time stamps to ensure uniqueness. For a complete specification, 32 * see ftp://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-leach-uuids-guids-01.txt [leach]. 33 * 34 * @author Steve Viens 35 * @version 1.0 11/7/2000 36 * @since JDK1.2.2 37 */ 38 public interface UUIDGen { 39 public String nextUUID(); 40 }