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package org.rioproject.monitor.service;
/**
* The interface defines the semantics to manage instance identifiers. An instance
* identifier correlates to an ordinal value of a service instance relative to the
* number of service instances that have been provisioned.
*
* @author Dennis Reedy
*/
public interface InstanceIDManager {
/**
* Get the next instance identifier
*
* @return The next instance identifier
*/
long getNextInstanceID();
}