Thanks guys. The java.util.UUID approach worked perfectly.

On 3/1/06, robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just a small caveat: The uuid idea is a good one, however, from the uuid mini
> faq:
>
> http://www.asciiarmor.com/blog/default/2005/01/03/C62D35145B8464302800D42AB64B5036.txt
>
> java.rmi.server.UID only has 2^16 significant digits and makes no provision
> for the system clock being set backward.
>
> If you run java 5.0 you can use java.util.UUID which has 2^122 significant
> digits and doesn't have the system clock problems. There is also commons-id .
> For just logging the rmi.uid issues don't really come up but java.util.UUID
> in general is the better option.
>
> Axis2 places a uuid in the request header for WS-Addressing, but not in the
> response. Last I checked axis 1.x headers (been a while) it doesn't have a
> UUID.
>
> HTH,
> Robert
> http://www.braziloutsource.com/
>
> Em Quarta 01 Março 2006 15:28, o Jeff Greif escreveu:
> > If you're using a handler for logging, the handler in the request flow
> > could add a correlation-id or request-id property to the
> > MessageContext with a generated value, and include it in the log
> > message.  Similarly, the handler in the response flow could retrieve
> > that property and include it in the response/fault log.  The
> > correlation id could be generated using java.rmi.server.UID or
> > java.rmi.dgc.VMID depending upon the configuration of your server(s).
> >
> > Before doing this, check to see if Axis already has some
> > correlation-id functionality or whether there is already a unique
> > request-id in the MessageContext.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> > On 3/1/06, Todd Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I've got logging set up to log requests, responses, and faults to
> > > seperate log files. The problem is that I cannot reliably tell which
> > > request ties to with response or fault. Using timestamps is completely
> > > unreliable. I set it to log the thread information, but this is
> > > repeated everytime the thread services a new request so you cannot get
> > > reliable info this way either. So, my question is: what approach do
> > > you use to link a specific request to a specific repsonse/fault for
> > > logging etc.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > -T
>
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