Due to the current gap in continued funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program Center has temporarily paused most operations. See NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations for details.
Due to the current gap in continued funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program Center has temporarily paused most operations. See NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations for details.
Tom Glaess asks: > Does anyone know if Unidata is working on a Java interface to NetCDF? We're planning a Java interface for netCDF, but we haven't done any significant work on it yet. The initial Java interface may be read-only. This would still permit writing netCDF browsers and visualization tools in Java. Java has (or will shortly have along with the Remote Method Invocation API) an Object Serialization Interface that permits objects to be written to and read from streams. Object serialization is analogous to XDR, in that it allows programs to convert an object into a portable stream of bytes that can later be used to build an equivalent object. Java object serialization alone doesn't provide netCDF's ability to access small subsets of large datasets efficiently using direct access I/O, but Java has a RandomAccessFile class that can be used to implement such a capability. I'm interested in hearing about other efforts to provide Java interfaces to netCDF data or array-oriented data visualization tools in Java. --Russ ______________________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.unidata.ucar.edu
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