Uuids are equal if they have the same 128-bit value. Uuid instances can be created using the static methods of the {@link UuidFactory} class.The design of this class is intended to support the use of universally unique identifiers that
Uuid as a capability. Note that not all defined Uuid values imply a generation algorithm that supports this goal. The most significant 64 bits of the value can be decomposed into unsigned integer fields according to the following bit masks:
0xFFFFFFFF00000000 time_low 0x00000000FFFF0000 time_mid 0x000000000000F000 version 0x0000000000000FFF time_hi
The least significant 64 bits of the value can be decomposed into unsigned integer fields according to the following bit masks:
0xC000000000000000 variant 0x3FFF000000000000 clock_seq 0x0000FFFFFFFFFFFF node
This specification defines the meaning (and implies aspects of the generation algorithm) of Uuid values if the variant field is 0x2 and the version field is either 0x1 or 0x4.
If the version field is 0x1, then
time_low, time_mid, and time_hi fields are the least, middle, and most significant bits (respectively) of a 60-bit timestamp of 100-nanosecond intervals since midnight, October 15, 1582 UTC, clock_seq field is a 14-bit number chosen to help avoid duplicate Uuid values in the event of a changed node address or a backward system clock adjustment (such as a random number when in doubt, or the previously used number incremented by one if just a backward clock adjustment is detected), and node field is an IEEE 802 address (a 48-bit value). As an alternative to an IEEE 802 address (such as if one is not available to the generation algorithm), the node field may also be a 48-bit number for which the most significant bit is set to 1 and the remaining bits were produced from a cryptographically strong random sequence.
If the version field is 0x4, then the time_low, time_mid, time_hi, clock_seq, and node fields are values that were produced from a cryptographically strong random sequence.
Only Uuid values with a version field of 0x4 are considered computationally difficult to guess. A Uuid value with a version field of 0x1 should not be treated as a capability.
A subclass of Uuid must not implement {@link Externalizable}; this restriction is enforced by this class's constructor and readObject methods.
@author Sun Microsystems, Inc.
@since 2.0
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