Hyrax 1.7.0 released

[Gallagher James]

Greetings!

OPeNDAP is pleased to announce that Hyrax 1.7.0 is released. Source and Linux and OS/X binaries are available.

http://www.opendap.org/download/hyrax.html

This version of the server contains three new handlers: The Gateway handler that provides connections between Hyrax and other kinds of web interfaces for data; the CSV handler, that provides an easy way to serve Comma Separated values; the netcdf handler works with 'classic' netcdf 4 files; and (as a beta feature) the ncISO handler from NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center. For ncISO, you have to edit the URL by hand, adding either '.iso' for the ISO 19115 XML response, or '.rubric' for the conformance rubric.

James
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[Roy Mendelssohn]

Any more info available on the gateway Handler?

Thanks,

-Roy

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[Roy Mendelssohn]

Right now we are doing databases either through the old java code or through pydap. So yes, in particular since we are migrating to new machines and need to think abouthow we do things.

-Roy

On Jun 9, 2011, at 2:26 PM, Gallagher James wrote:

>
> On Jun 9, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Roy Mendelssohn wrote:
>
>> Any more info available on the gateway Handler?
>

> Here's the documentation page for the handler: http://docs.opendap.org/index.php/BES_-_Modules_-_Gateway_Module
>
> I'm more that happy to answer questions about it.
>
> Say, would you be interested in SQL support? We have beta code for that... It could be released in the OS/X Package which I think is pretty easy to install.
>
> Thanks,
> James

[Gallagher James]

On Jun 9, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Roy Mendelssohn wrote:

> Any more info available on the gateway Handler?

Here's the documentation page for the handler: http://docs.opendap.org/index.php/BES_-_Modules_-_Gateway_Module

I'm more that happy to answer questions about it.

Say, would you be interested in SQL support? We have beta code for that... It could be released in the OS/X Package which I think is pretty easy to install.

Thanks,
James

>

[Steve Hankin]

On 6/9/2011 2:26 PM, Gallagher James wrote:
> On Jun 9, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Roy Mendelssohn wrote:
>
>> Any more info available on the gateway Handler?
> Here's the documentation page for the handler: http://docs.opendap.org/index.php/BES_-_Modules_-_Gateway_Module
>
> I'm more that happy to answer questions about it.
>
> Say, would you be interested in SQL support? We have beta code for that... It could be released in the OS/X Package which I think is pretty easy to install.

Hi James,

my 2 cents: An emerging big area for back-end SQL support will be to
align with the CF Discrete Sampling Geometries specification. (Final
formatting still not completed -- see
https://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/trac/attachment/ticket/37/CFch9-may4.docx for
now.) The difficulty with SQL back ends for OPeNDAP in the past was
that there was no layer of conventions above them to allow apps to
readily decipher the semantics. That lead to poor interoperability;
SQL datasets through OPeNDAP too often required a human to make sense of
them before an application could. CF discrete geometries can provide
this level of semantics.

(Full disclosure: there is a good deal of unsettled terrain about the
optimal API for reading a CF Discrete Sampling Geometries dataset ...
and the data model behind the API. But all to the good to increase the
level of conversation on this topic.)

- Steve