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55
56 /**
57  *
58  * UUIDGen adopted from the juddi project
59  * (http://sourceforge.net/projects/juddi/)
60  *
61  */

62
63 package org.jboss.axis.components.uuid;
64
65
66 /**
67  * A Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) is a 128 bit number generated
68  * according to an algorithm that is garanteed to be unique in time and space
69  * from all other UUIDs. It consists of an IEEE 802 Internet Address and
70  * various time stamps to ensure uniqueness. For a complete specification,
71  * see ftp://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-leach-uuids-guids-01.txt [leach].
72  *
73  * @author Steve Viens
74  * @version 1.0 11/7/2000
75  * @since JDK1.2.2
76  */

77 public interface UUIDGen
78 {
79    public void init();
80
81    public void destroy();
82
83    public String JavaDoc nextUUID();
84 }
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