The current DAP2 clients use two different approaches to managing the packet of data that is sent by the server.
The C++ libdap library uses what I will call an "eager" evaluation method. By this I mean that the whole packet is processed when received, is decomposed into its constituent parts (e.g. data arrays, sequence records, etc) and those parts are used to annotate the parsed DDS.
Version 4.1.0 of the netCDF Operators (NCO) has been released. NCO is an Open Source package that consists of a dozen standalone, command-line programs that take netCDF files as input, then operate (e.g., derive new data, average, print, hyperslab, manipulate metadata) and output the results to screen or files in text, binary, or netCDF formats.
Spring is in the air in Boulder, Colorado, and hearts and minds are changing as quickly as the trees are blooming! One unnamed developer within Unidata has had his heart enlarge so much that it would make the Grinch blush.