I recently worked with the JavaCPP project to update the packaged HDF5 to 1.14.0 and to include the HDF Group Java bindings:
The overall effect is that a comprehensive set of Java bindings are now available via JavaCPP:
https://mkitti.github.io/janelia/javacpp-hdf5/1.14.0-1.5.9-SNAPSHOT/javadoc/
Additionally, native binaries and Java classes are packaged together. These can be accessed via Maven, Gradle, Leiningen, and sbt. Currently, only snapshots builds are available here: http://bytedeco.org/builds/ .
Normal builds should be available with the release of JavaCPP 1.5.9.
To load the packaged native binaries, construct the org.bytedeco.hdf5.hdf5_java class:
I plan to create a version of the ETH SIS/CISD JHDF5 API based on top of the JavaCPP distribution.