/*
* Copyright (C) 2000 - 2008 TagServlet Ltd
*
* This file is part of Open BlueDragon (OpenBD) CFML Server Engine.
*
* OpenBD is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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*
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*
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*/
package com.nary.util;
/**
* This class generates a unqiue key in the form of a long
* that is based on time, but will not generate the same key
* if called twice in the same MS interval.
*/
public class uniqueKey extends Object {
static int counter = 0;
/**
* Returns a unqiue long key
*/
public static long generate(){
long ct = (0x000000000fffffff & System.currentTimeMillis()) << 32;
return ct | (0x00000000ffffffff & (counter++) );
}
}