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Import NASA Ocean Color and MODIS missing for Mac OS X?
6/16/09 7:14 PM
Congrats on the new website, forum, and release! ...time to become a thorn in all your sides..

Regarding the Mac OS X version of BEAM:

-under BEAM 4.5.1 File->Import, both "Import NASA Ocean Color" and "Import MODIS" are grayed out
-under BEAM 4.6.0 File->Import, neither of these import options are present
-for linux these import options are available

Any idea why these menu options aren't available?

Also, one of my Macs has a 32-bit Intel Core Duo processor and I'm wondering if there's any way to get BEAM to run on it? I installed a non-apple distro of 32-bit Java 1.6 and tried to trick BEAM into running but I'm guessing I need to be on a 64-bit architecture?

thanks, mike
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RE: Import NASA Ocean Color and MODIS missing for Mac OS X?
6/16/09 7:57 PM as a reply to Mike MacDonald.
Hi Mike,

BEAM is programmed in the Java programming language and therefore we use the HDF-Java libraries provided by the HDF Group. Unfortunately these libraries are not pure Java and use native, shared libraries which are not available for Mac OS X Intel (64bit) systems.

The good news is that the NetCDF-Java libraries are 100% pure Java and from version 4.0 on they support reading NetCDF (of course) but also HDF-4 and HDF-5! We just switched to NetCDF 4.0 in BEAM-4.7-SNAPSHOT. The CHRIS/Proba, MODIS and OBPG product readers will be migrated soon in order to use the new NetCDF 4.0 library. We hope to get rid of HDF native code in the future (the so called 'native hell').

See and watch also issue BEAM-1009.

Best regards
Norman
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RE: Import NASA Ocean Color and MODIS missing for Mac OS X?
6/16/09 9:08 PM as a reply to Norman Fomferra.
Ok great, I'll be waiting for it with bated breath..
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RE: Import NASA Ocean Color and MODIS missing for Mac OS X?
6/16/09 10:24 PM as a reply to Norman Fomferra.
And I'm guessing I'm out of luck with my 32-bit Mac?
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6/17/09 11:52 AM as a reply to Mike MacDonald.
Dear Mike,

welcome to our new forum! I have found - but not tested yet - the following Tech Tip which describes how to set-up the SoyLatte 32-bit JDK6 on a Mac. As far as I understand the matter, the Tech Tip should work on any Mac and you do not need to be on a 64 bit architecture.

With best wishes,
Ralf
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RE: Import NASA Ocean Color and MODIS missing for Mac OS X?
6/17/09 7:52 PM as a reply to Ralf Quast.
Yes, SoyLatte is the non-apple distro I used and I followed the tech tip you mentioned. But I haven't been able to get Beam running yet and I was guessing Beam might be built as a 64-bit app and not play nicely with a 32-bit java? Some of the problems I encountered so far:

I haven't been able to figure out how to get the Beam installer to recognise that SoyLatte is installed. I tried playing with symlinks in the /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/ directory and also setting the JAVA_HOME env variable, but the Beam installer doesn't see the 1.6 version. I also tried the OS X "Java Preferences" utility but it also doesn't see SoyLatte.

So I tried tar'ing up the beam-4.6.0 directory on a 64-bit Mac and manually installed it on the 32-bit Mac, but when visat starts, a Java error occurs: "Bad version number in .class file".

Anyway, if you have any ideas please let me know.
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