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package org.jboss.messaging.util;
import org.jboss.util.id.GUID;
/**
*
* @author <a href="mailto:tim.fox@jboss.com">Tim Fox</a>
* @version <tt>$Revision: $</tt>6 Jul 2007
*
* $Id: $
*
*/
public class GUIDGenerator
{
public static String generateGUID()
{
String guid = new GUID().toString();
//We reverse the guid - this is because the JBoss GUID generates strings which are often the same up until
//the last few characters, this means comparing them can be slow (when they're not equal) since many characters need
//to be scanned
int i;
int len = guid.length();
StringBuffer res = new StringBuffer(len);
for (i = len -1; i >= 0; i--)
{
res.append(guid.charAt(i));
}
return res.toString();
}
}