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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 JavaDoc nextUUID();
40 }
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