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Greetings,I have a question about the NetCDF Tools UI. I have been looking at the JNLP files that are used to "WebStart" the application and the arguments section looks like this:
<application-desc main-class="ucar.nc2.ui.ToolsUI">
<argument>{catalog}#{dataset}</argument>
</application-desc>
And a typical URL to invoke it looks like this:
http://motherlode.ucar.edu/thredds/view/ToolsUI.jnlp?catalog=http://motherlode.ucar.edu/thredds/catalog/fmrc/NCEP/GFS/Alaska_191km/runs/catalog.xml&dataset=fmrc/NCEP/GFS/Alaska_191km/runs/NCEP-GFS-Alaska_191km_RUN_2010-08-03T12:00:00Z
Which in turn returns a JNLP file with the argument element filled in:
<application-desc main-class="ucar.nc2.ui.ToolsUI">
<argument>http://motherlode.ucar.edu/thredds/catalog/fmrc/NCEP/GFS/Alaska_191km/runs/catalog.xml#fmrc/
NCEP/GFS/Alaska_191km/runs/NCEP-GFS-
Alaska_191km_RUN_2010-08-03T12:00:00Z</argument>
</application-desc>So I would deduce that it wants the catalog URL and the thredds:dataset/@ID attribute separated by a "#" sign as it's argument.
Does it accept different argument schemes? Is there a way to simply pass it a DAP data access URL? http://motherlode.ucar.edu/thredds/dodsC/fmrc/NCEP/GFS/Alaska_191km/runs/NCEP-GFS-Alaska_191km_RUN_2010-08-03T12:00:00Z Or even a URL that returns a netcdf file? http://motherlode.ucar.edu/thredds/dodsC/fmrc/NCEP/GFS/Alaska_191km/runs/NCEP-GFS-Alaska_191km_RUN_2010-08-03T12:00:00Z.nc(This last example is really a fictitious URL but I hope you can appreciate my point)
Or is it the case that it will only accept a THREDDS catalog and a dataset ID as arguments?
Nathan = = = Nathan Potter ndp at opendap.org OPeNDAP, Inc. +1.541.231.3317
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