Is it possible to use the Hibernate GUIDGenerator class outside any mapping to a database? I'd like to reuse it's unique id generation, but do it with a method call rather than having hibernate doing the generation for me through a mapping. May be a silly question, but I wasn't sure if it was possible or not. Thanks

Properties props = new Properties();
props.setProperty("separator", "/");
IdentifierGenerator gen = new UUIDHexGenerator();
( (Configurable) gen ).configure(Hibernate.STRING, props, null);
IdentifierGenerator gen2 = new UUIDHexGenerator();
( (Configurable) gen2 ).configure(Hibernate.STRING, props, null);

for ( int i=0; i<10; i++) {
String id = (String) gen.generate(null, null);
System.out.println(id);
String id2 = (String) gen2.generate(null, null);
System.out.println(id2);
}