Re: [netcdfgroup] Virtual Datasets (and Java)

• To: Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal <roy.mendelssohn@xxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [netcdfgroup] Virtual Datasets (and Java)
• From: Dennis Heimbigner <dmh@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 12:02:33 -0700

Speaking for myself,  I would say that yes,
we would like to incorporate this capability
into netcdf-4. The details the
API change (if any) would control when and how
we incorporate it.
=Dennis Heimbigner
 Unidata
 

Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal wrote:
> Hi All:
> 
> In a recent talk, Mike Folk stated that the next release of HDF5 will contain 
> the ability to do “virtual datasets”, essentially the same type of 
> aggregation as is done by the THREDDS Data Server.  I can see where there 
> could be advantages to do this at the dataset, rather than the server level.  
> When the new version of HDF5 is officially released, are there any plans to 
> incorporate this feature not the netcdf libraries?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Roy
> 
> 
> PS - As a total aside, we have a data service we would like to keep totally 
> Java.  I was following the development of “nujan” to write netcdf4 files with 
>  pure Java code, but it appears to have fallen off the radar.  Are there any 
> plans to pick that up again?  We likely won’t provide netcdf4 files as part 
> of the service unless something like that is available, as we don’t want to 
> have to support all the different OS and versions.
> 
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    • From: Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal