Does anyone know of a library in Java that can parse ESRI Shapefiles?

Question

I\'m interested in writing a visualization program for the road data in the 2009 Tiger/Line Shapefiles. I\'d like to draw the line data to display all the roads for my coun

Answer 1

You could try to use Java ESRI Shape File Reader library. It's small, easy to install and has very simple API. The only drawback is that it does not read other mandatory and optional files (.shx, .dbf, etc.) that are usually shipped with a shape file.