ShapeFRAME (Shape file  Rendering and Modeling Engine)
Description:

Java Applet to render and view GIS Data. ShapeFRAME allows panning,
zooming, feature selection, layer hiding/showing, and simple spatial
queries WITHOUT needing to access the server! ShapeFRAME reads the
ArcView ShapeFile format and the associated Dbase (DBF) attribute
file. ShapeFRAME can work as a full "standalone" viewer ( reading
whole ShapeFiles from the web server) or as Client/Server using RMI,
with the server component either reading  shapefiles from the
filesystem or from ESRI's SDE application.