Thanks for the insight.  I had downloaded a version last week, but the
project was still pointing to an older version that was downloaded earlier
in the year.  I cleaned up everything, and reset the class path
appropriately and all is working beautifully.

Cheers,
Susan

On 5/25/12 1:13 PM, "Peter Cao" <x...@hdfgroup.org> wrote:

>There was a problem for HDF4 SDS on 64-bit mac machines.
>The problem was fixed two months ago. But the problem
>should not happen on linux machines. If you installed HDFView
>2.8 over two months ago, could you download it and try it?
>
>
>On 5/25/2012 12:23 PM, summerhaze wrote:
>> Hi -
>>
>> I've been trying to figure out how to read data using the hdf-java
>>without
>> success.  All data values returned are zero.  Thinking the data was
>>somehow
>> corrupted, I validated the file by writing an equivalent C program, and
>>then
>> looked at the data using hdfview.
>>
>> After validating, I decided to try the TestH4File.java example, running
>>the
>> "testH4SDS" test, and --- got the same result.  All values output are
>>zero
>> (and should not be).
>>
>> I've tried this on both my Mac (Lion) and on an Ubuntu 11 box.  I'm
>>using
>> hdf-java 2.8 and java 1.6 (64b).
>>
>> Any insights are appreciated.
>> Thanks,
>> Susan
>>
>> === output ===
>>
>> Julian Date and Time
>> _FillValue
>> 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
>> Longitude
>> _FillValue
>> 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
>>
>> (I modified line 205 to take the min of the array size of 10, vs. 1000
>>for
>> brevity.)
>>
>> ===== relevant code ====
>>
>>      /**
>>       * Test H4SDS.
>>       */
>>      private static void testH4SDS(String fileName)
>>      {
>>          H4File h4file = new H4File(fileName, HDFConstants.DFACC_READ);
>>
>>          try {
>>              h4file.open();
>>          } catch (Exception ex)
>>          {
>>              System.out.println(ex);
>>          }
>>
>>          DefaultMutableTreeNode root =
>> (DefaultMutableTreeNode)h4file.getRootNode();
>>          H4SDS sds = null;
>>          DefaultMutableTreeNode node = null;
>>          if (root != null)
>>          {
>>              Enumeration nodes = root.depthFirstEnumeration();
>>              while (nodes.hasMoreElements())
>>              {
>>                  node = (DefaultMutableTreeNode)nodes.nextElement();
>>                  Object obj = node.getUserObject();
>>                  if (obj instanceof H4SDS)
>>                  {
>>                      sds = (H4SDS)obj;
>>                      System.out.println(sds);
>>
>>                      // test H4CompoundDS attributes
>>                      Attribute attr = null;
>>                      List info = null;
>>                      try {
>>                          info = sds.getMetadata();
>>                      } catch (Exception ex)
>>                      { System.out.println(ex); }
>>
>>                      int n = 0;
>>                      if (info != null)
>>                      {
>>                          n = info.size();
>>                          for (int i=0; i<n; i++)
>>                          {
>>                              attr = (Attribute)info.get(i);
>>                              System.out.println(attr);
>>                          }
>>                      }
>>
>>                      // data
>>                      Object data = null;
>>                      try
>>                      {
>>                          data = sds.read();
>>                      } catch (Exception ex) {System.out.println(ex);}
>>
>>                      if ((data != null)&&  data.getClass().isArray())
>>                      {
>>                          // print out the first 1000 data points
>>                          n = Math.min(Array.getLength(data), 10);
>>                          StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
>>                          for (int j=0; j<n; j++)
>>                          {
>>                              sb.append(Array.get(data, j));
>>                              sb.append(" ");
>>                          }
>>                          System.out.println(sb.toString());
>>                      }
>>                  } //if (obj instanceof H4Group
>>              } //while (nodes.hasMoreElements())
>>          } //if (root != null)
>>
>>      try {
>>          h4file.close();
>>          } catch (Exception ex)
>>          {
>>              System.out.println(ex);
>>          }
>>      }
>>
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>-- 
>Thank you!
>--pc
>
>
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