hdf4/hdf5 [Fwd: Re: HDF4 support]

[John Caron]

Looks very interesting, Ill check it out, thanks for the info...

Roy Mendelssohn wrote:
> The Webwinds project out of JPL  (Lee Elson) had a pure Java HDF 
> library.  Have you had a look at that?  If the library was adequate, 
> what would it take to add it as a service?
> 
> -Roy
> On May 7, 2007, at 8:30 AM, John Caron wrote:
> 
>> Hi Rob:
>>
>> We are looking for funding (or another group) to add an HSF4/HDF-EOS 
>> reader to the CDM and THREDDS. The NCSA library is in C, but we 
>> require 100% Java, so we cant use it.
>>
>> Any ideas from anyone on where we might find resources would be welcome.
>> Rob Cermak wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I guess we also have a large supply of HDF4 files.   I would 2nd the
>>> motion for HDF4 support in Thredds :)
>>> NCSA seems to be a fully operational hdf4 and hdf5 library for java.
>>> How much effort would it take to adapt this for use in THREDDS?
>>> http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/hdf-java-html/build_src_unix.html
>>> Rob
>>> --------------------------- Original Message 
>>> ----------------------------
>>> Subject: Re: HDF4 support
>>> From:    "Ethan Davis" <edavis at unidata.ucar.edu>
>>> Date:    Wed, December 6, 2006 2:55 pm
>>> To:      John.Relph at noaa.gov
>>> Cc:      thredds at unidata.ucar.edu
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>>
>>> Hi John,
>>> Yuan Ho wrote:
>>>> John Relph wrote:
>>>>> I was wondering if anybody has HDF4 support working in THREDDS.
>>>> No, I think only HDF5.
>>> The THREDDS Data Server only serves data that the netCDF-java library
>>> can read. As Yuan said, it can't read HDF4 but can read HDF5 (though it
>>> isn't a full HDF5 implementation, so there are HDF5 files that it can't
>>> read).
>>> However, if you are looking for OPeNDAP access, the OPeNDAP project
>>> (opendap.org) does have an HDF4 server.
>>> Ethan
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