Re: netCDF-Java 2.2.10

I just tried to clean up the source build.
Get the latest 2.2.10 and try this:

BUILD AND RUN FROM SOURCE
1. get the source release (ncSrc-2.2.10.zip)
2. unzip into working directory
3. ant compileUI
4. sh runSrcRelease

Let me know what doesnt work for you.
thanks

Robert B. Schmunk wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I had thought about trying to compile netCDF from scratch, but  tracing 
> down all
> the package dependencies makes things such a hassle that I was  putting 
> it off
> until it became inescapable. But I may take a whack at it soon. I'll  
> let you know
> what happens if I do.
>
> iText seems to be very much under development. Version 1.3.4 was  
> released a week
> or two ago, and the author of the package is in the middle of writing  a 
> book/manual
> right now.
>
> I've just been examining the iText problem, and I am coming to the  
> suspicion
> that it's something to do with Apple's Java 1.4 implementation.  
> Stacktracing
> the errors gets deep into the Aqua L&F and the Sun font classes; the  
> crashes
> are not in iText code itself. I was able to get Panoply to write a  plot 
> out to
> PDF a few minutes ago after hacking a line in the iText source (yes,  I got
> desperate enough to try compiling that package from source) to watch  
> for bad
> input from a L&F class, but all the typefaces in the result were  
> somehow been
> converted to Helvetica. :(
>
> rbs
>
>
>
> On Oct 4, 2005, at 16:07, John Caron wrote:
>
> > Hi Robert:
> >
> > Yes, its true we are using some 1.4 stuff like the URI class. Im  not 
> > sure what else, its been a long time since I've run 1.3. It may  be 
> > that the "minimal" netcdf library will work ok on 1.3 though. It  
> > would need to be recompiled under 1.3. If you want to try that,  
> > download the soruce distribution, and just compile ucar.ma2 and  
> > ucar.nc2. I _think_ it will work.
> >
> > Generally 1.4 is better, faster, and less buggy than 1.3, im  
> > surprised that iText has problems. Is there anyone developing that  
> > still?
> >
> > Sorry for not documenting this, I will update the web page.
> >
> > Robert B. Schmunk wrote:
> >
> > > John,
> > > Is it the case that using the netCDF-Java library version 2.2.x   
> > > _requires_
> > > the user have Java 1.4 installed?
> > > I decided to take a look at upgrading Panoply from using nj-2.1.9  to 
> > > the
> > > current stable nj-2.2.10. After 15-20 minutes of mucking about   
> > > figuring out
> > > the changes in the API which specifically affected Panoply, I got  
> > > the  app
> > > back up and running... but only when I instructed it to use Java  
> > > 1.4.  When
> > > I limit it to using Java 1.3, I get the following error:
> > > gov.nasa.giss.panoply.Panoply.main(String[]) threw an exception:
> > > java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: ucar/nc2/dataset/  
> > > NetcdfDataset (Unsupported major.minor version 48.0)
> > > There is nothing on netCDF-Java homepage to indicate the  particular  
> > > level
> > > of Java required, so if 2.2.x requires a particular Java you may  
> > > want to
> > > update the website to explicitly say so.
> > > This is probably not a big problem. I'd prefer to bump Panoply up  
> > > to  Java
> > > 1.4 anyway, but I have also run into a problem with another 3rd party
> > > libary (the iText PDF writer) which crashes under Java 1.4 when  run  
> > > on Mac
> > > OS X. (If it's not one thingsit's another...) Also, Panoply is  used 
> > > in a
> > > number of classroom situations and one just never knows how up-to-  
> > > date their
> > > machines are being kept.
> > > rbs
> > > --
> > > Robert B. Schmunk, address@hidden
> > > NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, New York,  
> > > NY  10025
>
> --
> Robert B. Schmunk, address@hidden
> NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY  
> 10025