hdf4/hdf5 [Fwd: Re: HDF4 support]

John Caron caron at unidata.ucar.edu
Mon May 7 11:03:04 MDT 2007


Hi Wenli:

Thanks for the pointers. I believe this is a Java wrapper around the C library, not a 100% Java library. However, some of it will probably be useful when we do create a 100% Java library.

John

Wenli Yang wrote:
> John,
> 
> For HDF4-based HDF-EOS, see the following for Java API:
> 
> http://hdfeos.org/workshops/ws10/abstracts/day2/HDF-EOS_Java_API.php
> 
> Wenli Yang
> George Mason University
> 
> At 11:30 AM 5/7/2007, 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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