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 # Validate Helioviewer servers responses to getDataSources requests
 
+Connects to GSFC, IAS, and ROB Helioviewer servers and requests the list of available datasets. It validates the responses against a JSON schema.
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 Run it as: `java -Djava.awt.headless=true -jar DataSourcesChecker.jar`.