Sean Arms

Thanks for the clarification. > I agree that having an independent implementation for reading HDF5 is important and Im willing for now to keep the Java code updated and fix...

> Can the netcdf-c library read any hdf5 or just netcdf4 ? Just netcdf-4 as far as I understand, although better flexibility in the C library is a desired feature....

> I need to think about all that more. But just to clarify, Im just volunteering to update the pure Java code. Totally. Any JNA based HDF5 IOSP will be...

We've been taking a look at this one, but nothing figured out quite yet. The HDF fractal heap is somewhat complex. NetCDF-Java has implemented a pure java HDF5 reader -...

You can snag a copy [here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ybZ6ZASCjZOQAsjlU6LyKW8I2zKIHdV1/view?usp=sharing).

Ok, so we'll put CFP on the shelf until the radar IOSP rewrite, because yikes. Unidata/netcdf-java#514 fixes the data word size issue by using the word size encoded in the...

I still want to get the changes in for HDFS at the RandomAccessFile level. It should not be too bad though...should...

Version 7 at this point, in a different gradle project like `cdm-s3`, and I might backport if it is not too bad...maybe.

>Comparison of the switch statements in these methods to ECMWF's data representation template list, several such templates are not handled. But for the moment, 42 is the one of concern....

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