How to deploy applets (or applications) using JOGL

OpenGL Development JOGL Development
#1

I’ve got a few questions about what it would take to deploy something using JOGL.

In deploying an applet or application that uses JOGL, would it be simple enough to just include jogl.jar in the classpath? from some other reading i’ve been doing here it sounds like the end users have to have it installed on their system as well. is there anyway we can install jogl automatically if their system doesn’t have it?

Any more detailed tutorials or threads on this particular topic would be more than helpful.

Thanks a lot! :slight_smile:

#2

Use Java Web Start. It downloads and executes the native code associated with the JOGL library automatically. See the JOGL User’s Guide and the JOGL demos for examples of how to use it. You don’t even need to sign your application even though JOGL contains native code, since we sign the JOGL extension jars.

#3

Yeah thats what its looking like will be best. Thanks!

Will Web start automatically detect what system the user is on and then install the correct lib files accordingly? Our system needs to work on Windows, Mac OS X, and Solaris/Linux.

Thanks!

#4

Yes. The JOGL extension JNLP file takes care of all of this automatically. You just need to add one line to your application’s JNLP file.