Tags: uuid

UUIDs have their place in the world

November 24th, 2008
I recently signed up for the Spring Exchange in London. After filling in my credit card details I received my email confirmation to print out. Your order from <my_payment_co> has been successful. The unique reference for this transaction is: 5… more »

java.util.UUID primary keys in hibernate

November 1st, 2008
Surprisingly Hibernate 3 does not support UUID's. I think the main reason for this is that UUID is not yet an ANSI database type. Each database manufacturer has implemented it in a different way, stored it as a slightly different type and has a driver (o… more »