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/*
* Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
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*/
/**
*
* UUIDGen adopted from the juddi project
* (http://sourceforge.net/projects/juddi/)
*
*/
package org.apache.axis.components.uuid;
/**
* A Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) is a 128 bit number generated
* according to an algorithm that is garanteed to be unique in time and space
* from all other UUIDs. It consists of an IEEE 802 Internet Address and
* various time stamps to ensure uniqueness. For a complete specification,
* see ftp://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-leach-uuids-guids-01.txt [leach].
*
* @author Steve Viens
* @version 1.0 11/7/2000
* @since JDK1.2.2
*/
public interface UUIDGen {
public String nextUUID();
}