/*
 *
 * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
 *
 * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates.
 *
 * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite
 *
 * This file is part of OpenOffice.org.
 *
 * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3
 * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
 *
 * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details
 * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code).
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
 * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org.  If not, see
 * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html>
 * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License.
 *
 */

import java.io.File;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;

public class URLHelper
{
    /**
     * Because the office need URLs for loading/saving documents
     * we must convert used system pathes.
     * And java use another notation for file URLs ... correct it.
     *
     * @param aSystemPath
     *          represent the file in system notation
     *
     * @return [String]
     *          a file url which represent the given system path
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
    public static String getFileURLFromSystemPath( File aSystemPath )
    {
        String sFileURL = null;
        try
        {
            sFileURL = aSystemPath.toURL().toString();
        }
        catch( MalformedURLException exWrong )
        {
            sFileURL = null;
        }

        // problem of java: file URL's are coded with 1 slash instead of 2 or 3 ones!
        // => correct this problem first, otherwise office can't use these URL's
        if(
            (sFileURL                       != null ) &&
            (sFileURL.startsWith("file:/")  == true ) &&
            (sFileURL.startsWith("file://") == false)
          )
        {
            StringBuffer sWorkBuffer = new StringBuffer(sFileURL);
            sWorkBuffer.insert(6,"//");
            sFileURL = sWorkBuffer.toString();
        }

        return sFileURL;
    }
}

/*
 *
 * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
 *
 * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates.
 *
 * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite
 *
 * This file is part of OpenOffice.org.
 *
 * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3
 * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
 *
 * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details
 * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code).
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
 * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org.  If not, see
 * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html>
 * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License.
 *
 */

import java.io.File;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;

public class URLHelper
{
    /**
     * Because the office need URLs for loading/saving documents
     * we must convert used system pathes.
     * And java use another notation for file URLs ... correct it.
     *
     * @param aSystemPath
     *          represent the file in system notation
     *
     * @return [String]
     *          a file url which represent the given system path
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
    public static String getFileURLFromSystemPath( File aSystemPath )
    {
        String sFileURL = null;
        try
        {
            sFileURL = aSystemPath.toURI().toURL().toString();
        }
        catch( MalformedURLException exWrong )
        {
            sFileURL = null;
        }

        // problem of java: file URL's are coded with 1 slash instead of 2 or 3 ones!
        // => correct this problem first, otherwise office can't use these URL's
        if(
            (sFileURL                       != null ) &&
            (sFileURL.startsWith("file:/")  == true ) &&
            (sFileURL.startsWith("file://") == false)
          )
        {
            StringBuffer sWorkBuffer = new StringBuffer(sFileURL);
            sWorkBuffer.insert(6,"//");
            sFileURL = sWorkBuffer.toString();
        }

        return sFileURL;
    }
}

Change <file>.toURL() to <file>.toURI().toURL()