Re: [xwiki-devs] idea: use the JDK 1.5 UUID implementation when we need unique id

14 Jan 2008

Vincent Massol wrote:
...
  Hi,

 I've heard that there are some places in xwiki where we need unique  
 ids (anyone remembers where?).

 In any case I've found this JDK 1.5 class which can help us with the  
 implementation:
 http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/UUID.html

 I'm posting it  here for the record.

 Thanks
 -Vincent 
Against it, as it:
- adds another dependency on Java 1.5
- only provides Random and Name UUID, no time-based UUIDs

A better option would be Jug (http://jug.safehaus.org/), which provides 
more types of UUIDs.

Sergiu