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+/*
+ *
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ *
+ */
+package org.apache.qpid.util;
+
+
+/**
+ * UUIDs
+ *
+ */
+
+public final class UUIDs
+{
+
+    public static final UUIDGen newGenerator()
+    {
+        return newGenerator(System.getProperty("qpid.uuid.generator",
+                                               NameUUIDGen.class.getName()));
+    }
+
+    public static UUIDGen newGenerator(String name)
+    {
+        try
+        {
+            Class cls = Class.forName(name);
+            return (UUIDGen) cls.newInstance();
+        }
+        catch (InstantiationException e)
+        {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+        catch (IllegalAccessException e)
+        {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+        catch (ClassNotFoundException e)
+        {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+}