GDAL/OGR In Java

The GDAL project has SWIG generated Java bindings for GDAL and OGR. Work has been done so that these bindings are in shape for 1.7.0 release. For the 1.5.0 and 1.6.0 release, they are considered to be broken.

Generally speaking the classes and methods mostly match those of the GDAL and OGR C++ classes. You can find the ​Javadoc for API of the future 1.7.0 release. Note : the API might be subject to changes before the actual release. It is aimed at being backward compatible with the API of previous releases (in the cases where it was not previously broken). Please report if you find that working API from previous GDAL version is not to be found in the 1.7.0 API.

Due to the fact the Java garbage collector works in a separate thread from the main thread, it is necessary to configure GDAL with multi-threading support, even if you do not use GDAL API from several Java threads.

The minimum version of Java required to build the Java bindings is Java 1.4.

Useful Links

• gdalinfo.java Sample Java program similar to gdalinfo utility (use API from Java bindings of GDAL 1.7.0dev)

• All Java sample programs

• ​Image I/O-Ext: The main core module of the project is gdalframework, a framework leveraging on GDAL via SWIG's generated JAVA bindings to provide support for a reach set of data formats.

• GdalOgrInJavaBuildInstructions: Complete instructions for building GDAL's Java bindings from scratch on Windows.

• GdalOgrInJavaBuildInstructionsUnix: Build instructions for java on Unix/Linux/MinGW.