simple GUID (Globally Unique ID) implementation.
A GUID is composed of two parts:
1. The IP-Address of the local machine.
2. A java.rmi.server.UID
author: Thomas Mahler version: $Id: GUID.java,v 1.7.2.1 2005/12/21 22:27:47 tomdz Exp $
public constructor.
The caller is responsible to feed a globally unique
String into the theGuidString parameter
Parameters: theGuidString - a globally unique String