On Wed, 1 May 2002, Hans Bergsten wrote:
> Another alternative is to develop your own class for generating unique
> IDs:
>
> public class IDGenerator {
> public long getNextId() {
> // Some algorithm, possibly based on a timestamp and a sequence
> // number, to generate the next id
> return nextId;
> }
> }
Yeah, I tend to like this approach too. Java offers java.rmi.server.UID,
too, if you want to use a more "standard" mechanism.
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