On my previous project, i had a request to provide a csv to shp converter feature. After googling for a while, i found a simple java code snippet, i modified some of its part so i could integrate it on my GIS project and hope it will be more flexible.

This is part of inflasi3.csv file that will be converted into shp

KOTA,LAT,LON,JULIL2009,AGUS2009,9-Sep,OKT2009,9-Nov,DES2009,10-Jan,10-Feb,10-Mar,10-Apr,MEI2010,JUNI2010
BANDA ACEH,5.546181947,95.32366186,0.8,1.45,1.82,-1.3,0.45,-0.23,-0.3,-0.04,0.7,-0.47,0.63,0.63
TARAKAN,3.276090324,117.6193848,0.99,0.97,1.53,-0.74,0.64,1.76,0.24,0.2,0.08,0.09,-0.19,1.44
MANADO,1.493103951,124.8409503,0.46,0.65,-0.36,0.83,1.27,0.38,-1.35,1.25,1.29,-1.32,-0.64,-0.12

And this is my java class,

package com.baculsoft.main;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import org.geotools.data.DataStoreFactorySpi;
import org.geotools.data.DataUtilities;
import org.geotools.data.DefaultTransaction;
import org.geotools.data.FeatureStore;
import org.geotools.data.Transaction;
import org.geotools.data.shapefile.ShapefileDataStore;
import org.geotools.data.shapefile.ShapefileDataStoreFactory;
import org.geotools.feature.FeatureCollection;
import org.geotools.feature.FeatureCollections;
import org.geotools.feature.simple.SimpleFeatureBuilder;
import org.geotools.geometry.jts.JTSFactoryFinder;
import org.geotools.referencing.crs.DefaultGeographicCRS;
import org.opengis.feature.simple.SimpleFeature;
import org.opengis.feature.simple.SimpleFeatureType;

import com.vividsolutions.jts.geom.Coordinate;
import com.vividsolutions.jts.geom.GeometryFactory;

public class Csv2Shape {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        File file = new File("inflasi3.csv");

        FeatureCollection<SimpleFeatureType, SimpleFeature> collection = FeatureCollections.newCollection();
        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
        SimpleFeatureType TYPE = null;
        try {
            String line = reader.readLine();
            
            StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
            stringBuilder.append("location:Point,");

            String[] headers = line.split("\\,"); 
            for (String header : headers) {
                stringBuilder.append("").append(header).append(":String,");
            }

            TYPE = DataUtilities.createType("Location", stringBuilder.substring(0, stringBuilder.toString().length() - 1));
            GeometryFactory factory = JTSFactoryFinder.getGeometryFactory(null);

            for (line = reader.readLine(); line != null; line = reader.readLine()) {
                String split[] = line.split("\\,");

                String name = split[0]; 
                double latitude = Double.parseDouble(split[1]);
                double longitude = Double.parseDouble(split[2]);

                Object[] o = new Object[split.length+1];
                for (int i = 2; i < o.length; i++) {
                    o[i] = split[i-1];
                }

                o[0] = factory.createPoint(new Coordinate(longitude, latitude));
                o[1] = name;

                SimpleFeature feature = SimpleFeatureBuilder.build(TYPE, o, null);
                collection.add(feature);
            }
        } finally {
            reader.close();
        }
        File newFile = new File("inflasi4.shp");

        DataStoreFactorySpi factory = new ShapefileDataStoreFactory();

        Map<String, Serializable> create = new HashMap<String, Serializable>();
        create.put("url", newFile.toURI().toURL());
        create.put("create spatial index", Boolean.TRUE);

        ShapefileDataStore newDataStore = (ShapefileDataStore) factory.createNewDataStore(create);
        newDataStore.createSchema(TYPE);
        newDataStore.forceSchemaCRS(DefaultGeographicCRS.WGS84);

        Transaction transaction = new DefaultTransaction("create");

        String typeName = newDataStore.getTypeNames()[0];
        FeatureStore<SimpleFeatureType, SimpleFeature> featureStore;
        featureStore = (FeatureStore<SimpleFeatureType, SimpleFeature>) newDataStore.getFeatureSource(typeName);

        featureStore.setTransaction(transaction);
        try {
            featureStore.addFeatures(collection);
            transaction.commit();
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
            transaction.rollback();
        } finally {
            transaction.close();
        }
    }
}

And this is my pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>com.edw</groupId>
    <artifactId>CSV2SHP</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>

    <name>CSV2SHP</name>
    <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
    
    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
        <!-- use the latest snapshot -->
        <geotools.version>8.4</geotools.version>
    </properties>
  
    <repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>maven2-repository.dev.java.net</id>
            <name>Java.net repository</name>
            <url>http://download.java.net/maven/2</url>
        </repository>
        <repository>
            <id>osgeo</id>
            <name>Open Source Geospatial Foundation Repository</name>
            <url>http://download.osgeo.org/webdav/geotools/</url>
        </repository>
    </repositories>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>3.8.1</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.geotools</groupId>
            <artifactId>gt-shapefile</artifactId>
            <version>${geotools.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.geotools</groupId>
            <artifactId>gt-swing</artifactId>
            <version>${geotools.version}</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</project>

This is the screenshot of my viewer (geoexplorer) after i uploaded inflasi4.shp, which is the result of converting inflasi3.csv

Hope it helps other, have fun