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Universal Object Locators
Universal Object Locators (or UOLs for short) are Fnorb specific and
are an attempt to provide a more flexible mechanism for exchanging
CORBA object references. UOLs are a bit like URLs in that
they allow objects to be referenced by a number of different
`protocols'. Currently, four `protocols' are supported, traditional
CORBA stringified object references (protocol ``IOR''), files in the
local file system (protocol ``file''), web documents (protocol ``http'')
and naming service names (protocol ``name'').
UOLs can therefore contain:
- A traditional CORBA stringified object reference
e.g. IOR:aStringifiedObjectReference
- A reference to a file on the local file system that contains a UOL
e.g. file:/the/pathname/of/a/file/containing/a/UOL
- The URL of a web document that contains a UOL
e.g. http://www.dstc.edu.au/Fnorb/etc/UOL
- A naming service name
e.g. name:/a/path/through/the/naming/service
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