About the OPeNDAP DAP2 C++ Library Package

This package contains the OPeNDAP C++ implementation of the Data

Access Protocol version 2 (DAP2) with some extensions that will be

part of DAP3. Documentation for this software can be found on the

OPeNDAP home page at <tt>http://www.opendap.org/</tt>. The NASA/ESE

RFC which describes DAP2, implemented by the library, can be found at

<tt>http://www.esdswg.org/spg/rfc/ese-rfc-004</tt>.

The DAP2 is used to provide a uniform way of accessing a variety of

different types of data across the Internet. It was originally part of

the DODS and then NVODS projects. The focus of those projects was

access to Earth-Science data, so much of the software developed using

the DAP2 to date has centered on that discipline. However, the DAP2

data model is very general (and similar to a modern structured

programming language) so it can be applied to a wide variety of

fields.

This package is required for many of the other Mac OS/X packages

  OPeNDAP has written. By default it will use <tt>/usr</tt> as the

  base directory for installation. If you change the default

  installation prefix, be sure to modify the PATH environment variable

  accordingly.