on 8/22/2000 1:03 PM, "Rafal Krzewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jon Stevens wrote:
>>> I primarily needed it for generating server-wide unique names for temporary
>>> files -
>>
>> <http://www.working-dogs.com/turbine/cvsweb/index.cgi/turbine/src/java/org/a
>> pache/turbine/util/GenerateUniqueId.java?rev=1.1.1.1&content-type=text/x-cvs
>> web-markup>
>>
>> Feel free to improve it. :-)
>
> Thanks, Turbine has so much usefull code that somtimes it's even hard to find
> it :) But after looking at it i think it doesn't address my problem. It
> generates
> pretty pseudo random indetifiers, but they are unique within single
> zone/context
> (a copy of static class members exists in each JVM sandbox). When there are
> more Turbnie instances running in the same Tomcat (JServ) these indetifiers
> may clash. This isn't any better than using Random to generate 'unique'
> identifiers.
> My code deals with the situation - you have a prefix that is different for
> each
> instance of Turbine in the world (with 1 - 2^-128 probability). This is better
> than using random, beacause on a single server, the names would always clash
> (if
> two urls have the same MD5 - which is extermaly unlikely) or never clash.
like i said...feel free to improve it. :-) in fact, you could take your code
and stick it into GUID as a method.
>>> Uh, we already have an LDAP service, TurbineNamingService. I don't know what
>>
>> duh. i'm an idiot.
>
> See? We have too much great code :)
yea...even i get lost sometimes.
>>
>>> RENAMING SERVICES
>>> I proposed to drop 'Turbine' prefix on service names (requires changing
>>
>> +1
>
> Pepople will complain :) But isn't doing the right thing more important?
>
> Rafal
What are the complaints again?
-jon
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