The EAID in the XMI file

[jfm007]

In the XMI, there are attributes which contains GUID, such as xmi.id="MX_EAID_3EB21908_0196_474f_91C5_6733531C0AF4". Just want to know how the "3EB21908_0196_474f_91C5_6733531C0AF4" gets generated.

I am sure it is not the ea_guid in the database. But it has to have some connection with it. Just want to know the algorithm behinds that.  

[Geert Bellekens]

Now if you post both the xmi guid and the ea_guid from the database we could maybe say something about it.

Geert

[qwerty]

GUIDs are generated by public algorithms (also in EA). You'll find them in the Windoze libs or that of the language you prefer. The format in the database and the XMI differs in that the XMI often has a prefix and it uses underscore instead of dash. Further the database GUIDs are surrounded by curly brackets.

q.

[jfm007]

My bad, the GUID in xmi is the same as the GUID in database. I wasn't able to find them, because when I query the database with GUID, I couldn't find them.

Thanks for the reply anyway.