JAVA OpenGL

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JAVA OpenGL (JOGL)
Presentation by Eddie Welch Kit Collins
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JAVA OpenGL

• JOGL - a wrapper library that allows OpenGL to be
  used in the Java programming language.
• Originally developed by Kenneth Bradley Russell
  and Christopher John Kline.
• Currently being developed by the Game Technology
  Group at Sun Microsystems.

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What is OpenGL?

• OpenGL Open Graphics Library.
• OpenGL is a standard specification defining a
  cross-language, cross-platform API for writing
  applications that produce 2D and 3D computer
  graphics.
• Interface consists of over 250 different function
  calls which can be used to draw complex-three
  dimensional scenes from simple primitives.
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JAVA OpenGL

• The base OpenGL C API is accessed in JOGL via
  Java Native Interface (JNI) calls.
• JNI is a programming framework that allows Java
  code running in a JVM to call and to be called by
  native applications (programs specific to a
  hardware and operating system platform) and
  libraries written in other languages, such as C,
  C and assembly.

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JAVA OpenGL

• JOGL differs from some other Java OpenGL wrapper
  libraries in that it merely exposes the
  procedural OpenGL API via methods on a few
  classes, rather than attempting to map OpenGL
  functionality onto the object-oriented
  programming paradigm. Indeed, the majority of the
  JOGL code is auto-generated from the OpenGL C
  header files via a conversion tool named Gluegen,
  which was programmed specifically to facilitate
  the creation of JOGL.

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Setting up JOGL in Netbeans

• http//projectkenai.com/projects/netbeans-opengl-p
  ack/pages/Home
• Using JOGL in Eclipse
• http//timelessname.com/jogl/lesson01/