The file URL scheme, one of three CORBA object URL schemes, identifies a file containing another object reference.
A file URL scheme begins with the characters, "file://". The rest of the URL is a path name that identifies a file. When converting this, the Object Request Broker opens the file and reads from it another object reference, which can be either an object URL or an Interoperable Object Reference (IOR).
Example of a file URL scheme string:
file://c:\temp\a_url.txt
Converting the previous file URL scheme to an object causes the ORB to read the object reference (URL or IOR) from the file and, in turn, convert it to an object.