Re: pure java HDF reader

Posted by spota on
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Good point, I wasn't aware of these differences (I don't use any of these features in my application).

As for your question on implementing the whole HDF5 C libraries into pure Java, I wonder about that myself.
What I have read on the HDF5 JNI mailing lists querying on that subject is that it's 100.000 lines of C code and quite complex and that basically nobody has dedicated the time or money to do it. It makes me wonder if this thing is spaghetti code or if it's been optimized beyond human recognition...

At my work, the resources are currently spread very thin and although I'm pushing for HDF5 to be  implemented all over the place as a standard, we won't have a team to complete such an effort all by ourselves any time soon... but If a project of this sort gets started and people need my humble help, I'm totally in!