= GDAL/OGR In Java = 

The GDAL project has SWIG generated Java bindings for GDAL and OGR.  Generally speaking the classes and methods mostly match those of the GDAL and OGR C++ classes, but there is currently no Java specific documentation beyond this wiki topic. 

Currently there is no Java bindings maintainer, and so these bindings should be considered unsupported.  For the impending 1.5.0 release they are believed to be broken.

= Useful Links = 

 * [http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/browser/trunk/gdal/swig/java/apps/gdalinfo.java gdalinfo.java] Sample Java program similar to gdalinfo utility

 * [https://imageio-ext.dev.java.net 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. 

 * [wiki:GdalOgrInJavaBuildInstructions]: Complete instructions for building GDAL's Java bindings from scratch on '''Windows'''.

 * [wiki:GdalOgrInJavaBuildInstructionsUnix]: Build instructions for java on unix/linux.