Howdy, Can you use the local host name + the current time? Or something in that vein...
Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics >-----Original Message----- >From: Tom Ly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 1:29 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: How do you generate a unique number for each request across >muliple tomcat instances? > >I have an application where I need to generate a unique int for each >request that comes in. I've got about 8 Tomcat instances running spread >across four machines(two tomcat's each machine). It's pretty simple with >one Tomcat, but with mulitple Tomcats it gets tricky. I tried using >InetAddress to get the ip address of the current machine and use that to >set the range for each tomcat(since the ip address will always be unique), >but since I'm using Linux, it'll always return 127.0.0.1 as the ip address, >so I can use class InetAddress. Any advice on what to do? > > >--------------------------------- >Do you Yahoo!? >Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
