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>To: address@hidden >From: Nan Galbraith <address@hidden> >Subject: NetCDF for Java question >Organization: WHOI >Keywords: 199904031521.IAA15462 > > I'm hoping to use NetCDF for Java to implement a stand-alone cdrom > version of a web-based NetCDF data server which I originally wrote using > perl. The original version used html forms which allowed the user to specify > datasets, variables, bins, time limits and filtering and decimation values, > and then download NetCDF or, optionally, ASCII data as defined by the user. > > My plan is to now implement these forms as applets, in order to allow the > user to work off-line with no server, for ex. at sea. Java seems like the ideal > language for this, since there will be a variety of users' platforms. The > existence of NetCDF for Java (NFJ) seems like an incredible stroke of good luck, > and the package looks really well documented and well designed. > > Two questions: > 1. I thought there might be some discussion going on in the mailing list - > is my postmaster overfiltering our mail, or am I the first person at this > party, or is this package so easy to use that there's no discussion needed? There has been some use, but little discussion. Most of the discussion has not been on netcdf-group. You can go to http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/glimpsedocs/ghnetcdf.html and search the support archive to get an idea about what has been going on. > 2. Is the application (sorry, applet) I've described the sort of use that NFJ > is meant to do? Most emphatically yes. > Have others already created the applet that takes user input > to define the slice of data that will be returned? Are these example available > somewhere? I think Russ may have done some work in this area. I am forwarding this to him as well. -glenn