Lyn Greenhill wrote:
John:
We are developing a new engineering analysis package and will use
netCDF for saving model and analysis results. Our previous use was
with a desktop application, now we are going to an enterprise
application using J2EE. I have a couple of general questions:
1. We are using version 1.0 of netCDF, should we migrate to 2.0?
2. Do you have any experience using netCDF with J2EE? We're planning
on keeping the data file on the client side, and transferring results
when calculated from the server.
Thanks for any advice you can offer.
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Lyn Greenhill, P.E.
DynaTech Engineering, Inc.
Hi Lyn:
For simple access, v 1.0 remains adequate. It is no longer being
developed however.
V 2.1 is current release. This has new features and some performance
enhancements from 1.0; we will only fix bugs in it going forward.
V 2.2 will be released later this year. This has many new features and
will continue to evolve. I would recommend using it when it becomes
non-beta (or sooner if you need some of the new features).
We currently use netcdf-java 2.1 in Tomcat, and it works well. There
are no inherent threading problems. You shouldnt have any problems with
any J2EE technolgy that i know of.
v 2.2 will be much bigger, esp using a dozen other libraries, most
optional. so there is a bit bigger job in managing possible library
versions etc.
