[Gdal-dev] Java library for reading ESRI shapefiles?

[Pete Nagy]

I'd like to see gdal wrapped in java.  How hard would it be to swig it?
The python wrappers were initially created with an old version of swig,
right?

-> Pete

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On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> On 11/8/05, Tim Beckmann <tbeckman at usgs.gov> wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a freely available Java library for reading ESRI
> > shapefiles?  The gdal ogr and shapelib code has been great in the past,
> > but now I have a need to read ESRI shapefiles directly from a Java applet.
>
> Tim,
>
> I would suggest you check GeoTools.  There are definately a number
> of Shapefile implementations in Java out there though some may
> not be easily seperable.
>
> Best regards,
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