+# JOGL, High-Performance Graphics Binding for Java

+

+[Original document location](https://jogamp.org/cgit/jogl.git/about/)

+

+## Git Repository

+This project's canonical repositories is hosted on [JogAmp](https://jogamp.org/cgit/jogl.git/).

+

+## Overview

+The [*JOGL project*](https://jogamp.org/jogl/www/) hosts the development version of the Java™ Binding for the OpenGL® API, and is designed to provide hardware-supported 3D graphics to applications written in Java.

+

+JOGL provides full access to the APIs in the OpenGL [ 1.0 .. 4.5 ], ES [ 1.0 .. 3.2 ] and EGL [ 1.0 .. 1.5 ] specification as well as nearly all vendor extensions.

+OpenGL Evolution & JOGL and the JOGL Specification may give you a brief overview.

+

+JOGL integrates with the AWT, Swing and SWT widget sets, as well as with custom windowing toolkits using the NativeWindow API.

+JOGL also provides its own native windowing toolkit, NEWT.

+

+JOGL is part of [the JogAmp project](https://jogamp.org).

+

+[List of proposed work items & use-cases](https://jogamp.org/wiki/index.php?title=SW_Tracking_Report_Feature_Objectives_Overview)

+and [current blog entries](https://jausoft.com/blog/tag/jogamp/).

+

+**The JogAmp project needs funding and we offer [commercial support](https://jogamp.org/wiki/index.php?title=Maintainer_and_Contacts#Commercial_Support)!**<br/>

+Please contact [Göthel Software (Jausoft)](https://jausoft.com/) or perhaps use [github sponsorship](https://github.com/sponsors/sgothel/).

+

+## Organization of the JOGL source tree

+```

+doc/ Build and user documentation

+make/ Ant build scripts,

+ see top of build.xml for brief invocation instructions

+make/config Configuration files for glue code generation

+make/stub_includes Header files for glue code generation

+

+src/ Java and native source code for:

+src/jogl - JOGL

+src/nativewindow - NativeWindow Interface

+src/newt - NEWT

+src/junit - Unit test cases

+

+www/ Web pages

+```

+

+NativeWindow and NEWT might be build seperately.

+

+## Contact Us

+- Web [http://jogamp.org/](http://jogamp.org/)

+- Forum/Mailinglist [http://forum.jogamp.org/](http://forum.jogamp.org/)

+- Repository [http://jogamp.org/git/](http://jogamp.org/git/)

+- Email sgothel _at_ jausoft _dot_ com

+

+## Acknowledgments

+The JogAmp Community is gratefully acknowledges that the initial

+version of JOGL was authored and developed by Kenneth Bradley Russell

+and Christopher John Kline.

+

+The JogAmp Community is grateful for all the contributions

+of all of the individuals who have advanced the project.

+For sure we are not able to list all of them here.

+Please contact us if you like to be added to this list.

+

+This list can hardly cover all contributors and their contributions.

+You may like to check the author field of our SCM.

+

+(Chronological)

+

+Gerard Ziemski contributed the original port of JOGL to Mac OS X.

+

+Rob Grzywinski and Artur Biesiadowski contributed the Ant build

+support. Alex Radeski contributed the cpptasks support in the build

+process.

+

+Pepijn Van Eeckhoudt and Nathan Parker Burg contributed the Java port

+of the GLU tessellator. Pepijn also contributed the initial version of

+the FPSAnimator utility class.

+

+James Walsh (GKW) contributed the substantial port

+of the GLU mipmap generation code to Java, as well as robustness fixes

+in the Windows implementation and other areas.

+

+The JSR-231 expert group as a whole provided valuable discussions and

+guidance in the design of the current APIs. In particular, Kevin

+Rushforth, Daniel Rice and Travis Bryson were instrumental in the

+design of the current APIs.

+

+Travis Bryson did extensive work on the GlueGen tool to make it

+conform to the desired API design. He also shepherded JSR-231 through

+the standardization process, doing extensive cross-validation of the

+APIs and implementation along the way, and authored JOGL's nightly

+build system.

+

+Lilian Chamontin contributed the JOGLAppletLauncher, opening new ways

+of deploying 3D over the web.

+

+Christopher Campbell collaborated closely with the JOGL development

+team to enable interoperability between Sun's OpenGL pipeline for

+Java2D and JOGL in Java SE 6, and also co-authored the TextureIO

+subsystem.

+

+Sven Gothel refactored the windowing subsystem layer to be generic,

+introduced the support for multiple GL profiles, realized NEWT etc.

+Teamed up with Rami Santina, the new graph package was realized,

+exposing generic curve, text and UI support.

+

+Rami Santina researched and implemented the math behind the new

+graph package [RSantina], etc.

+

+The following individuals made significant contributions to various

+areas of the project (Alphabetical):

+

+Michael Bien

+Alban Cousinié

+Athomas Goldberg

+Yuri Vladimir Gushchin

+Gregory Pierce

+Dominik Ströhlein (DemoscenePassivist)

+Wade Walker

+Carsten Weisse

+

+The JogAmp Community is grateful for the support of the

+javagaming.org community and it's own JogAmp forum,

+from where dozens, if not hundreds, of individuals have

+contributed discussions, bug reports, bug fixes, and other forms of support.

+

++++

+

+*RSantina:* [Resolution Independent NURBS Curve Rendering using Programmable Graphics Pipeline](https://jausoft.com/blog/2011/10/05/jogljogamp-red-square-moscow-nurbs-graphicon2011/)

+