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Linda, Here's a note I just CC:ed to Shandran at FSL (he's address@hidden), among others ... --Russ ------- Forwarded Message Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 13:23:46 -0600 From: Russ Rew <address@hidden> To: Tom LeFebvre <address@hidden> cc: davis, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden Subject: Re: netCDF Java Interface Hi Tom, > At the risk of being a pest, any word when the Java interface might be > released? I'll repeat our previous offer... We'd love to be a beta > test site, if you're interested. I should have let you know sooner about a change in our schedules and plans. I had done quite a bit of work on Joe Sirott's read-only Java code but suspended work on it, because the netCDF-3 release is currently behind schedule. We can see the light at the end of the tunnel, and should have a netCDF-3 release available soon. After we release netCDF-3, our top priority will be making a Java package for netCDF data access available. The good news is that Glenn Davis will be working on this as well, and he's already implemented a prototype read-write version of netCDF in 100% Java. So we have two different interfaces and implementations that need to be reconciled, and I expect the result will benefit from the best features of both. We also plan on using RMI to provide distributed data access to netCDF data, but it will be based on JDK 1.1, rather than the 1.0.2 implementation with pre-release RMI that Joe Sirott used in his design and implementation, still available from ftp://ftp.atmos.washington.edu/freud/java/ I'm CC:ing people I know who have expressed interest in the availability of Java netCDF, and will include everyone I've CC:ed on future announcements of early access to test versions. We may also be asking you for your opinions on some interface issues. Please let me know if you want to be taken off this list, or if you know anyone else who would be interested in helping us test an early release. Thanks for your interest and patience ... - --Russ _____________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu ------- End of Forwarded Message