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                          Newsletter #47
                          November 10, 1999
CONTENTS
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. Release of Java HDF5 Interface            * Visit the HDF home page     *
  Version 1.0                               * for up-to-date information  *
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                                            *   http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ *
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Release of Java HDF5 Interface Version 1.0
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The Java HDF5 Interface (JHI5), version 1.0, is now available at:

   http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/java-hdf5-html/

It is a Java package (ncsa.hdf.hdf5lib) that ``wraps'' the NCSA 
HDF5 library. The JHI5 may be used by any Java application that 
needs to access HDF5 files.  It is extremely important to emphasize 
that this package is not a pure Java implementation of the HDF5 library.

This is a very "low-level" interface, intended for Java developers.
In the near future, we will release Java classes that implement
the HDF5 data model as Java objects, and other higher level
interfaces which will be more useful for scientific applications.

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