JXTA in a Nutshell

Name

Package net.jxta.id

Synopsis

JXTA IDs are used to identify a variety of entities: peers, pipes, services, modules, and so on. Each ID uniquely identifies an object; the IDs are implementations of Unique Universal Identifiers (UUIDs). Externally, these IDs are represented by URIs with a namespace of “JXTA” and an encoding name of “URN.” IDs are created through static methods of the IDFactory class.

Services and peergroups should choose well-known IDs for their implementations so that all peers will use the same ID. These IDs can be created by utilities within the JXTA Shell. The class hierarchy for this package is shown in Figure 9-7.

Figure 9-7. The net.jxta.id package

Interfaces

public static interface IDFactory.Instantiator;

Classes

public abstract class ID implements Cloneable, Serializable;

public final class IDFactory extends net.jxta.util.ClassFactory;