[Freegis-list] Shape File Reader

[Markus Mueller]

Hi Shankar 

> Hi,
>     We are in need of reading the contents of ".shp" file.And we are
> using java for this.The problem is the .shp file is having a variable
> "byte order".For some record contents the byte order is "big endian"
> and for some it is "little endian".I can read the big endian types but
> not the little endian ones.I am getting wrong values that dont match
> with the file specifications.Can anybody out there help me on deciding
> which file reader class I should use in java to read all the .shp file
> contents.Thanks in advance.

We implemented a Shapefile-Reader in java which is fully functional as
part of our Simple Features project. It is openSource (LGPL) and can be
found at: http://katla.giub.uni-bonn.de/sfjava/


Cheers

Markus

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