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URL:
www.opengroup.org
Many utility system use Globally Unique Identifiers
(GUIDs) to identify objects, interfaces and their instances. The concept of a
GUID was originally conceived by the Open Software Foundation (now called The
Open Group) for their Distributed Computing Environment (DCE). The GUID is a
unique value in both space and time. It is generated on your development
machine by a standard OSF DCE algorithm. It is this DCE algorithm that allows
rapid development of COM+ objects without requiring use of namespace
partitions. COM+ provides a tool called GUIDGEN that generates a unique GUID
based on spatial and temporal information.
Keywords:
Widespread usage
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