Generating a globally unique identifier in Java

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Pretty sure UUIDs are “good enough”. There are 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,770,000,000 UUIDs available.

http://www.wilybeagle.com/guid_store/guid_explain.htm

“To put these numbers into perspective, one’s annual risk of being hit by a meteorite is estimated to be one chance in 17 billion, that means the probability is about 0.00000000006 (6 × 10−11), equivalent to the odds of creating a few tens of trillions of UUIDs in a year and having one duplicate. In other words, only after generating 1 billion UUIDs every second for the next 100 years, the probability of creating just one duplicate would be about 50%. The probability of one duplicate would be about 50% if every person on earth owns 600 million UUIDs”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_Unique_Identifier

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