SailPoint generating the same employee id for contractors

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Hi,
We have create contractor functionality in SailPoint which used a custom form to get all the details of a contractor and then uses a custom workflow to create a identity in SailPoint. Now if we create 2 contractors one by one and approve them at the same time within a second then it is creating same employee id in SailPoint which is leading to failure of one of the request. The logic for employee id generation is purely a java code which check the last employee id generated and increments it by one every time.

Kindly let us know why this is happening.

Regards,
Mahesh

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This is most likely due to a concurrency issue. You might want to try putting your Java code inside of a “synchronized” block or method so that it can only be accessed by a single thread at a time:

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/concurrency/syncmeth.html