UUIDs for DynamoDB?

Question

Is it possible to get DynamoDB to automatically generate unique IDs when adding new items to a table?

I noticed the Java API mentions @DynamoDBAutoGeneratedKey so I\

Answer 1

Here is another good method taken from mkyong

http://www.mkyong.com/java/how-to-get-current-timestamps-in-java/

I adjusted his method to get the milliseconds instead of the actual date

java.util.Date date= new java.util.Date();
System.out.println(new Timestamp(date.getTime()).getTime());