This is the CDF V3.8.0 online software distribution directory for
Linux/Unix systems. The sub-incremental version is marked as "_#", e.g.,
_1, _2, etc, if it exists. This directory contains the following files:
AAREADME.txt This is the readme text file you're viewing.
Welcome.txt Text describing what the main CDF distribution
package, cdf38_0_#-dist-all.tar.gz contians.
Help_all.txt Description of how to build the CDF package.
Help_test.txt Description of how to test the build of the CDF package.
Help_install.txt Description of how to install the build the CDF package.
CHANGES.txt Description of the changes made for current and
previous releases.
Release.notes Information about the current CDF release.
CDF_copyright.txt Information about the CDF copyright.
cdf38_0_#-dist-all.tar.gz This file contains everything CDF offers except for
the CDF Perl APIs, and it contains the following
items:
- CDF library
- CDF C, FORTRAN, and Java APIs
- C and Java version of the CDF tools
- CDF XML tools
cdf38_0_#-dist-all.tar.gz is the combination of
cdf38_0_#-dist-cdf.tar.gz,
cdf38_0_#-dist-java.tar.gz and
cdf38_0_#-dist-cdfj.tar.gz.
This file is compressed with the 'gzip' utility.
cdf38_0_#-dist-cdf.tar.gz This file contains the following items:
- CDF library
- CDF C and FORTRAN APIs
- C version of the CDF tools.
This file is compressed with the 'gzip' utility.
cdf38_0_#-dist-java.tar.gz This file contains the JNI-based Java APIs, tools,
(e.g. cdfedit, cdfexport, etc.) as well as CDF XML.
Download this file if you already have the CDF
library installed on your machine and want to
develop CDF applications in Java or use the Java
version of the CDF tools. CDF library is needed to
run the JNI. The jar file is based on Java 1.6.
This file is compressed with the 'gzip' utility.
cdf38_0_#-dist-java_src.tar.gz
This file contains the JNI-based source code,
including the CDF Java APIs, Java version of the
tools (e.g. cdfedit, cdfexport, etc.) and CDF XML
tools. It contains the JNI that supports the CDF
Java APIs. CDF library is needed to run the JNI.
cdf38_0_#-dist-cdfj_src.tar.gz
This file contains the source code for the pure
Java CDF APIs.
This file is compressed with the 'gzip' utility.
cdfjava.jar This is the latest version of JNI-based cdfjava.jar
that contains the latest Java APIs. This file is also
included in cdf38_0_#-dist-all.tar.gz and
cdf38_0_#-dist-java.tar.gz. It should overwrite the
one in the distribution package if it has been
updated with a later date. For those who installed
the Java APIs of previous version, you can upgrade
it with this one.
If you are not sure whether you have the latest
version of the Java APIs, download this file and
replace the one you have in the
<cdf38_0_dir>/cdfjava/classes directory.
The latest version is multi-threaded safe. If you
encounter any problem using this version, you may
need to recompile the JNI, cdfNativeLibrary.c, that
is in cdfjava/jni directory in the (compressed)
tarball, i.e., cdf38_0_#-dist-all.tar* or
cdf38_0_#-dist-java.tar*.
cdfj.jar This is the latest version of Java cdfj.jar that
contains the pure Java APIs for CDF read/write
without needing JNI and library. This file is also
included in cdf38_0_#-dist-all.tar.gz and
cdf38_0_#-dist-java.tar.gz..
cdfml.jar This file contains the latest version of the CDF XML
utilities (written in Java), and it contains the
following programs:
CDF2CDFML: Extracts the contents of a CDF file
into a XML file that conforms to the
CDF DTD or schema.
CDFML2CDF: Creates a CDF file from a XML file
that conforms to the CDF DTD or
schema.
The XML parser, SAX, is required to run
this program. Note that Sun's JDK 1.4
or a later version has a built-in XML
parser, so you don't need a separate
XML parser run this program.
Note that this file is also included in
cdf38_0_#-dist-all.tar.gz and
cdf38_0_#-dist-java.tar.gz,
It should overwrite the one in the distribution
package if it has been updated with a later date.
If you are not sure whether you have the latest
version of the CDF XML tools, download this file and
replace the one you have in the
<cdf38_0_dir>/cdfjava/cdfml directory.
PerlCDF38_0.tar.gz Compressed and tarred Perl-CDF APIs source file. You
need to install the CDF library prior to building
and using the Perl APIs.
cdf38_documentation This file points to the documentation of CDF V3.8.0.
cdf.dtd This is CDFML's Document Type Definition (dtd).
cdf.xsd This is CDFML's schema.
testdtd.xml This is sample XML that conforms to CDFML's DTD.
testxsd.xml This is sample XML that conforms to CDFML's schema.
checkleapseconds.sh Shell-script to check if the installed leap seconds
table is the latest.