GeoTools, the Java GIS toolkit

Features

• Definition of interfaces for key spatial concepts and data structures
• Open plug-in system allowing additional formats. Plugins supplied for raster, database and geospatial file formats.
• Includes extensions provide additional capabilities using the spatial facilites of the core library. Extensions provide graph and networking support (for finding the shortest path), validation, a web map server client, bindings for xml parsing and encoding and style generation
• Clean data access API supporting feature access, transaction support and locking between threads
• Vector support for app-schema, arcsde, csv, dxf, edigeo, excel, geojson, org, property, shapefile, wfs
• Spatial Database Support db2, h2, mysql, oracle, postgis, spatialite, sqlserver
• Raster plugins for arcsde, arcgrid, geotiff, grassraster, gtopo30, image (JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG), imageio-ext-gdal, imagemoasaic, imagepyramid, JP2K, matlab
• Powerful schema assisted parsing technology using XML Schema to bind to Java objects.
• XML Bindings for parsing/encoding xsd-core (xml simple types), fes, filter, gml2, gml3, kml, ows, sld, wcs, wfs, wms, wps, vpf.
• Rendering engine configured with OGC Standard Style Layer Descriptor files. Renderer is stateless, allowing low memory use particularly useful in server-side environments.
• Referencing using ESPG Database
• OGC Standards Support SLD/SE,Simple Feature,Grid Coverage, Filter/CQL,WMS,WFS,WPS, KML

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