1 /* VMID.java -- The object ID, unique between all virtual machines.
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40 import gnu
.java
.lang
.CPStringBuilder
;
42 import java
.io
.Serializable
;
43 import java
.net
.InetAddress
;
44 import java
.net
.UnknownHostException
;
45 import java
.rmi
.server
.UID
;
46 import java
.util
.Arrays
;
49 * An identifier that is unique accross the all virtual machines. This class is
50 * used by distributed garbage collector to identify the virtual machine of
51 * the client, but may also be used in various other cases, when such identifier
52 * is required. This class separately stores and transfers the host IP
53 * address, but will try to do its best also for the case if it failed to
54 * determine it. The alternative algorithms are used in {@link UID} that is
55 * part of this class. The VMID's, created on the same host, but in the two
56 * separately (parallely) running virtual machines are different.
58 public final class VMID
implements Serializable
61 * Use SVUID for interoperability.
63 static final long serialVersionUID
= -538642295484486218L;
66 * If true, the IP of this host can ve reliably determined.
68 static boolean areWeUnique
;
71 * The IP address of the local host.
73 static byte[] localAddr
;
76 * The IP address of the local host.
81 * The cached hash code.
86 * The UID of this VMID.
92 // This "local host" value usually indicates that the local
93 // IP address cannot be reliably determined.
94 byte[] localHost
= new byte[] { 127, 0, 0, 1 };
98 localAddr
= InetAddress
.getLocalHost().getAddress();
99 areWeUnique
= !Arrays
.equals(localHost
, localAddr
);
101 catch (UnknownHostException uhex
)
103 localAddr
= localHost
;
109 * Create the new VMID. All VMID's are unique accross tha all virtual
119 * Return true if it is possible to get the accurate address of this host.
120 * If false is returned, the created VMID's are less reliable, but the
121 * starting time and possibly the memory allocation are also taken into
122 * consideration in the incorporated UID. Hence the VMID's, created on the
123 * different virtual machines, still should be different.
125 * @deprecated VMID's are more or less always reliable.
127 * @return false if the local host ip address is 127.0.0.1 or unknown,
130 public static boolean isUnique ()
136 * Get the hash code of this VMID.
138 public int hashCode ()
142 for (int i
= 0; i
< localAddr
.length
; i
++)
144 hash
= hash ^ uid
.hashCode();
150 * Returns true if the passed parameter is also VMID and it is equal to this
151 * VMID. The VMID should only be equal to itself (also if the passed value is
152 * another instance, cloned by serialization).
154 public boolean equals(Object obj
)
156 if (obj
instanceof VMID
)
158 VMID other
= (VMID
) obj
;
160 // The UID's are compared faster than arrays.
161 return uid
.equals(other
.uid
) && Arrays
.equals(addr
, other
.addr
);
169 * Get the string representation of this VMID.
171 public String
toString ()
173 CPStringBuilder buf
= new CPStringBuilder ("[VMID: ");
175 for (int i
= 0; i
< addr
.length
; i
++)
182 buf
.append (Integer
.toString (addr
[i
]));
186 buf
.append (uid
.toString ());
189 return buf
.toString();