UUIDGen.java

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/**
 * UUIDGen adopted from the juddi project
 * (http://sourceforge.net/projects/juddi/)
 */
package org.apache.ode.utils.uuid;

import org.apache.ode.utils.GUID;

/**
 * Used to create new universally unique identifiers or UUID's (sometimes
 * called GUID's).  UDDI UUID's are allways formmated according to DCE UUID
 * conventions.
 */
public class UUIDGen {

  /**
   * Creates a new UUID. The algorithm used is the one in {@link UUID}, the
   * open group algorithm took too damn long.
   *
   * @return a new "globally" unique identifier
   */
  public String nextUUID() {
    return new GUID().toString();
  }

}