-------------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe/unsubscribe to the hdfnews mailing list, please send your request to ncsalist@ncsa.uiuc.edu with the appropriate command (e.g. subscribe hdfnews, unsubscribe hdfnews, help) in the *body* of the message. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsletter #77 April 19, 2004 CONTENTS ******************************* . New Release of High Level APIs * * * Visit the HDF home page * . Release of HDF Java Products version 2.0 * for up-to-date information * * * * http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ * * * ******************************* - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - New Release of High Level APIs ============================== A new release of the HDF5 High Level APIs is now available for download from the following page: http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/hdf5_hl/ This version was fully tested with HDF5-1.6.2. Pre-compiled binaries for many of the platforms we support are available from this page. Please note that with this release, several read/write functions in the Table API were changed to include an extra parameter. Release of HDF Java Products version 2.0 ======================================== A new release of the HDF Java Products, version 2.0, was released in March. This version was tested with HDF5-1.6.2. The HDF Java Products can be downloaded from the following page: http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/hdf-java-html/ The main difference with this version is that HDFView is built with replaceable I/O and GUI modules. It consists of several interfaces that enable users to write and use alternative implementations to replace default modules. The current replaceable modules include: File I/O Image View Table View Metadata View Tree View Palette View For detailed information regarding "Modular" HDFView, see the following page: http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/hdf-java-html/hdfview/ Bug fixes and a few other new features are also included with this release. This release was tested and supports the following platforms: Windows (98/NT/2000/XP) Solaris Linux AIX IRIX 6.5 Mac OSX OSF1 ------------------------------------------------------------- For questions regarding these or other HDF issues, contact: hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu