Provides classes and interfaces for using universally unique identifiers.

## `Uuid` and `UuidFactory`

Instances of the class {@link net.jini.id.Uuid} are universally unique identifiers. A `Uuid` is a 128-bit value. The class {@link net.jini.id.UuidFactory} provides static methods for creating `Uuid` instances with specified values and newly generated values.

The design of the `Uuid` and `UuidFactory` classes is intended to allow the actual class of a `Uuid` instance to be preferred (see {@link net.jini.loader.pref}), to help preserve that class's codebase annotation when it gets unmarshalled, while the `Uuid` class itself is not preferred, so that `Uuid` can be used in public field, method, and constructor declarations of types resolvable by classes defined by different class loaders.

## `ReferentUuid` and `ReferentUuids`

The interface {@link net.jini.id.ReferentUuid} allows a proxy for a resource to express the identity of that resource as a `Uuid`. The class {@link net.jini.id.ReferentUuids} provides a static convenience method for comparing the identities of proxies that are instances of `ReferentUuid`. With a uniform interface for accessing the identity of a proxy's resource, two proxies can be recognized as being for the same resource even if the proxies' implementation classes are not the same version or not defined by the same class loader. @since 2.0 @version 2.0