com.croftsoft.core.util.id
Interface Id

All Superinterfaces:

Cloneable, Serializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

ModelId

All Known Implementing Classes:

IntId, LongId, SecureId, SeriModelId, StringId

public interface Id
extends Cloneable, Serializable

An Id is used for consistent cross-process identification.

Id objects are useful for identifying, by equality, distributed and persistent objects (space and time, respectively).

An object that implements Id has the following characteristics:

• immutable;
• Serializable and deeply Cloneable; and
• results from the methods equals() and hashCode() are not based upon transient data and are consistent across processes.

Since:

2000-01-16

Version:

2003-06-17

Author:

David Wallace Croft

Method Summary

Object	clone()
boolean	equals(Object other)
int	hashCode()

Method Detail

clone

Object clone()

equals

boolean equals(Object other)

Overrides:

equals in class Object

hashCode

int hashCode()

Overrides:

hashCode in class Object