A constant UID byte array container optimized for use with hashed collections.
@author lorbanUID represents an identifier that is unique over time with respect to the host it is generated on, or one of 216 "well-known" identifiers. The {@link #UID()} constructor can be used to generate anidentifier that is unique over time with respect to the host it is generated on. The {@link #UID(short)} constructor can be used tocreate one of 216 well-known identifiers.
A UID instance contains three primitive values:
unique, an int that uniquely identifies the VM that this UID was generated in, with respect to its host and at the time represented by the time value (an example implementation of the unique value would be a process identifier), or zero for a well-known UID time, a long equal to a time (as returned by {@link System#currentTimeMillis()}) at which the VM that this UID was generated in was alive, or zero for a well-known UID count, a short to distinguish UIDs generated in the same VM with the same time value An independently generated UID instance is unique over time with respect to the host it is generated on as long as the host requires more than one millisecond to reboot and its system clock is never set backward. A globally unique identifier can be constructed by pairing a UID instance with a unique host identifier, such as an IP address.
@author Ann Wollrath
@author Peter Jones
@version 1.24, 06/02/23
@since JDK1.1
The identifier is composed of:
[ time ] - [ counter ]
Numbers are converted to radix(Character.MAX_RADIX) when converting to strings.
This should provide adequate uniqueness for most purposes. @version $Revision: 2787 $ @author Jason Dillon
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