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Release of HDF Java Products Version 2.1
A new version of the HDF Java Products, version 2.1, was
recently released. This version was tested with HDF5-1.6.3.
The HDF Java Products can be downloaded from the following
page:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/hdf-java-html/
Version 2.1 includes bug fixes and a few new features.
Following is a list of the major changes in this release:
A seamless plugin for user modules has been added. HDFView
will automatically detect and load a user's GUI and I/O
modules. There is no need to register new modules.
HDFView can now open remote files with a URL. For example,
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/hdf-java-html/hdf5_test.h5 or
ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/files/hdf5/hdf-java/hdf5_test.h5
A "HelpView" interface has been added to HDFView. Users can
implement their own help view.
Metadata in a dataset can be easily viewed from the status bar,
by clicking on "Metadata" at the bottom of the HDFView window.
An empty HDF5 compound dataset can be created with HDFView.
User blocks can be added or modified in HDFView.
A static function was added to the FileFormat class to request
an individual object without loading the entire structure of the
file.
In addition, performance improvements have been made to h5diff since
HDF5-1.6.3 came out. To obtain a version of h5diff with these changes,
download the modified files, insert them into the location specified
below in the HDF5 source code, and then build HDF5.