Package org.apache.torque.oid

The ID broker, an API to provide persistent object identifiers, as described by Scott Ambler's paper on "Enterprise-Ready Object IDs".

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
IdGenerator	Interface to be implemented by id generators.

Class Summary

Class	Description
AbstractIdGenerator	This class serves as a common base class for the sequence-based and the autoincrement-based id generators
AutoIncrementIdGenerator	This generator works with databases that have an sql syntax that allows the retrieval of the last id used to insert a row for a Connection.
IDBroker	This method of ID generation is used to ensure that code is more database independent.
IDGeneratorFactory	A factory which instantiates IdGenerator implementations.
SequenceIdGenerator	This generator works with databases that have an sql syntax for getting an id prior to inserting a row into the database.