Frederique Blanc wrote:
I do not know the information to your question but since I am interested
in the answer, I forward your e-mail to John Caron. He is the best one
to answer this issue.
best regards
Frédérique
At 18:42 23/08/2005, Alberto Troccoli wrote:
Hello Frederique,
Many thanks for the info and the document on DODS.
They are very useful.
We recently installed a DODS/Aggregation Server here at ECMWF
for the ENACT results (for now). If I understand correctly from
John Caron/s excerpt, the Aggregation Server is going to be
superseded. Do you know whether there is going to be back
compatibility? And will tools be available for the move from
the Aggregation Server to the new server configuration?
Thank you
Best regards
Alberto
PS For people in cc, the document referred to below is:
/scratch/rd/nej/MERSEA_WP06_CLS_UMAN_002A_opendap_installation.doc
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Dr Alberto Troccoli E-mail: a.troccoli@xxxxxxxxx
ECMWF Tel: +44 118 949 9853
Shinfield Park Fax: +44 118 986 9450
Reading RG2 9AX - UK
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Have a look at the fresh Royal Met Soc meeting report:
"Perfecting imperfect models", Weather, vol 60 (6), 171-172
www.ecmwf.int/staff/alberto_troccoli/publications/RMS/
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Hi Alberto, Frederique, et al:
The Aggregation Server (AS) will eventually be superceeded by the
Thredds Data Server (TDS), which is currently in beta test. The AS is no
longer being developed, and only major bugs will be fixed. After the TDS
has aggregation capabilities, the AS will no longer be supported.
Its unlikely that the TDS catalogs will be backwards compatible with the
current AS configuration files. Part of the problem with the AS, as
you've probably discoverd, is that its configuration files are hard to
create and maintain, and we plan to improve that wherever possible. It
may be straightforward to use XSLT or a perl script to translate from
the AS to the TDS. However, that is not known for sure. For these
reasons I reccommend that people not pour huge time into the AS now,
unless they also have the resources to convert.
Im hoping to have the TDS be able to replace the AS by the end of the
year, but I'm afraid I can't make any promises. The TDS is a major
development effort by Unidata and I'm confident it will be worth your
time investment in the long run.
Regards,
John Caron
Unidata/UCAR
