Toolkit for working with and mapping geospatial data
GeoTools is an open source (LGPL) Java code library which provides standards compliant methods for the manipulation of geospatial data.
GeoTools is an Open Source Geospatial Foundation project.
The GeoTools library data structures are based on Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specifications.
an API for rapidly developing Java,
desktop apps It includes a virtual desktop ,
user interface API, GUI client for management of SQL
databases,and a form design tool which allows basic
application code to be generated from a SQL table or tables