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Russ, In the APIs section of the new tutorial <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs_beta/netcdf-tutorial.html#APIs> it is stated that "The Java API is a complete implementation of netCDF in Java." Unfortunately, as we found out when we tried to replace our C-based Matlab-NetCDF interface with a Java version, this is not quite the case -- the Java API lacks some of the basic features of the C & Fortran interface, like the ability to put a file into redefine mode to add or modify attributes or data. I know that this is inefficient because the file often has to be entirely rewritten, but this functionality is still a very useful part of the NetCDF interface. This type of "backwards compatibility" in the Java API would be tremendously useful for us. I'm wondering what the rest of the community thinks. -Rich -- Richard P. Signell (508) 457-2229 USGS, 384 Woods Hole Rd. Woods Hole, MA 02543-1598 ============================================================================== To unsubscribe netcdfgroup, visit: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing-list-delete-form.html ==============================================================================
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