On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Ceki G�lc� wrote:
| One way to achieve uniqueness across JVM instances is by marking each event | by a combination of 1) an auto incrementing id, 2) ip address of the host | 3) start time of the JVM. This combination would guarantee uniqueness with | high degree of security across JVMs.
What if two JVMs are running on the same machine?
Note the third component, the starting time of the JVM. The likelihood of two JVMs starting on the same machine exactly at the same time is quite low even if both are started from the same script.
-- Ceki G�lc�
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