GUID creation?

Networking & Multiplayer
#1

Is there a standard Java counterpart of the windows functions ::CoCreateGuid() or UuidCreate()??

How is a serialVersionUID created?

Is it java.rmi.server.UID? In this case, strange location for such a fundamental utility!

#2

Coming in 1.5:
java.util.UUID : http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/UUID.html