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10.7 Architecture of NetCDF APIs and Libraries

Knowing how netCDF APIs are layered is sometimes useful for understanding performance and error handling.

Layering architecture of netCDF-3 libraries and applications:

The C and Java implementations are independent.
Other APIs call C library.
Fortran-90 library could be modified to call C library directly, with some work, for not much benefit.
Support for netCDF-2 APIs for C and Fortran77 not shown, layered on top of netCDF-3 libraries to support legacy applications.

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