Hi, Andreas Hartmann kirjoitti:
Is the syntax for UUID strings (as returned by Node.getUUID) part of the spec, or implementation specific?
I'm actually not sure. I believe the intention is for implementations to use the standard UUID format, but some legacy content repositories could also use custom identifiers (the global identifiers in Notes would be a good example).
A mail by Tim Reilly and the Jackrabbit javadocs contain a reference to http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-mealling-uuid-urn-05.txt or -01.txt, respectively. Unfortunately both of them return a 404 (the IETF search page is down ATM).
The UUID class in the Jackrabbit source tree is based on an earlier version of the UUID class from the commons-id package. The mealling-uuid-urn draft was promoted to RFC 4122 during the summer without any changes to the UUID format. The pointer was changed in the commons-id sources (see bug 35820 in the Apache Bugzilla), but the change never propagated to Jackrabbit as we perhaps should consider making commons-id a normal dependency once it moves out of the commons sandbox.
BR, Jukka Zitting
