[Bluej-discuss] JOGL & BlueJ

[Simon Read]

Brian,

I have used JOGL and spent some time making sure my students could use
it  from  BlueJ.   On my  advice  they  switched  to Eclipse  for  the
projects, so my experience is somewhat limited.

JOGL has worked for me with  both 1.1 and JSR-231 beta 01 releases.  I
would probably use the latter if I were preparing the class again.

To  install JOGL  you  will need  to  install the  natives (which  are
essentially DLLs  in a jar file)  putting them on  the windows library
path; and jogl.jar putting it on  the class path.  I have an installer
made with NSIS for this.

You are  supposed to  need to  supply the JVM  with some  command line
parameters (e.g. -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true).  This is only possible in
2.1.x.  I  didn't find  it to  be a significant  problem in  my simple
tests.

Simon Read
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Saint Mary's College of Maryland