1   /*
2    *  Tools.java
3    *
4    *  Copyright (c) 1998-2001, The University of Sheffield.
5    *
6    *  This file is part of GATE (see http://gate.ac.uk/), and is free
7    *  software, licenced under the GNU Library General Public License,
8    *  Version 2, June 1991 (in the distribution as file licence.html,
9    *  and also available at http://gate.ac.uk/gate/licence.html).
10   *  
11   *  Valentin Tablan, Jan/2000
12   *
13   *  $Id: Tools.java,v 1.10 2000/11/08 16:35:11 hamish Exp $
14   */
15  
16  package gate.util;
17  
18  import java.util.*;
19  
20  public class Tools {
21  
22    /** Debug flag */
23    private static final boolean DEBUG = false;
24  
25    public Tools() {
26    }
27    static long sym=0;
28  
29    /** Returns a Long wich is unique during the current run.
30      * Maybe we should use serializaton in order to save the state on
31      * System.exit...
32      */
33    static public synchronized Long gensym(){
34      return new Long(sym++);
35    }
36  
37    static public synchronized Long genTime(){
38  
39      return new Long(new Date().getTime());
40    }
41  
42  
43    /** Specifies whether Gate should or shouldn't know about Unicode */
44    static public void setUnicodeEnabled(boolean value){
45      unicodeEnabled = value;
46    }
47  
48    /** Checks wheter Gate is Unicode enabled */
49    static public boolean isUnicodeEnabled(){
50      return unicodeEnabled;
51    }
52  
53    /** Does Gate know about Unicode? */
54    static private boolean unicodeEnabled = false;
55  
56  } // class Tools
57