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package org.eclipse.persistence.internal.helper;


/**
 * INTERNAL:
 * This counter is used by the sessions to assign individual id's to all queries.
 * It is not synchronized because ++ with volatile is atomic, and queries executing at the same time do not require to refresh twice.
 * It is part of the fix for Bug#2698903 which arose from the fix for BUG#2612628
 */
public class QueryCounter {
    private static volatile long count = 0;

    public static long getCount() {
        return ++count;
    }
}