Here you can find the source of toBigInteger(UUID uuid)
public static BigInteger toBigInteger(UUID uuid)
//package com.java2s; /*********************************************** This file is part of the Edge Home Theater project (https://github.com/parlock/Edge-Home-Theater). /*from w ww . j a va2 s . co m*/ Edge Home Theater is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Edge Home Theater is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Edge Home Theater. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. ***********************************************/ import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream; import java.io.DataOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.math.BigInteger; import java.util.UUID; public class Main { public static BigInteger toBigInteger(UUID uuid) { return new BigInteger(1, toByteArray(uuid)); } public static byte[] toByteArray(UUID uuid) { ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); DataOutputStream dos = new DataOutputStream(baos); try { dos.writeLong(uuid.getMostSignificantBits()); dos.writeLong(uuid.getLeastSignificantBits()); return baos.toByteArray(); } catch (IOException e) { throw new RuntimeException(e); //should never happen } } }