Welcome to the JOGL API Project!

Overview

The JOGL Project hosts a reference implementation of the Java bindings for OpenGL API, and is designed to provide hardware-supported 3D graphics to applications written in Java. It is part of a suite of open-source technologies initiated by the Game Technology Group at Sun Microsystems.

JOGL provides full access to the APIs in the OpenGL 2.0 specification as well as nearly all vendor extensions, and integrates with the AWT and Swing widget sets.

Please see the JOGL demos for illustrations of advanced OpenGL techniques now possible with the Java platform.

Project Status

The intial implementation of the JOGL API is available for download from CVS.

Getting Started

This project has been built in the following environments. All require the ANTLR parser generator and the Ant build system version 1.6 or later to be installed; please see the build documentation for details.

Solaris
- Solaris 8 or later
- Sun ONE Studio 8 Compiler Collection or later
- Sun OpenGL for Solaris (or Mesa for Solaris 9 x86)
- Sun J2SDK 1.4.2 or later
Linux
- Red Hat Linux 7.3 for x86 or later
- GCC
- Sun J2SDK 1.4.2 or later
Macintosh
- Mac OS X 10.3 (note: will not work with earlier releases)
- GCC
- Java 1.4.2 or later for Mac OS X
Windows
- Windows 2000 or later for x86
- Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 or later, or MinGW compilers
- Sun J2SDK 1.4.2 or later

Useful Links

Downloads

Precompiled binaries and documentation

JavaOne 2005

Come see JOGL at the 2005 JavaOne conference from June 25 through June 30 in San Francisco, CA.

JOGL Activities at JavaOne

Time/Date	Location	Event ID	Description
Mon (6/27) - Wed (6/29)	Pavilion	Pod-1208	Java 3D, JAI and JOGL APIs (Demos)
Mon (6/27) 6:30-8:00 PM	Pavilion	Reception	“Ask the Experts”
Tue (6/28) 8:30-9:20 PM	Marriott Hotel, Golden Gate Ballroom B1	BOF-9877	Java Bindings for OpenGL^® (BOF)

Other Related Activities at JavaOne

Time/Date	Location	Event ID	Description
Mon (6/27) - Wed (6/29)	Pavilion	Pod-1106	Project Looking Glass (Demos)
Tue (6/28) 7:30-8:20 PM	Marriott Hotel, Golden Gate Ballroom B1	BOF-9723	The Java 3D API (BOF)
Wed (6/29) 8:30-9:20 PM	Marriott Hotel, Golden Gate Ballroom B1	BOF-9269	Java Advanced Imaging (BOF)
Wed (6/29) 1:30-2:30 PM	Moscone Hall E	TS-7992	Project Looking Glass (Technical Session w/ Demos)
Wed (6/29) 6:00-7:00 PM	Argent Hotel	Community Event	Project Looking Glass (Community Event / BOF)

Click here for more about Project Looking Glass at JavaOne.