When will we see a new official build of JOGL?

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#1

When will we see a new official build of JOGL?

Cheers
// Tomas :slight_smile:

#2

Hi, I jump here to ask another question :

“What’s up with JSR 231 ?”

Thanks.

#3

A new build of JOGL will be released soon. We are trying to fix as many of the open bugs as possible. No real showstoppers have been found yet which would require an immediate new release. Most of the available development time has gone into JSR-231 and HotSpot performance work recently. If you would like to monitor the progress of development please subscribe to the JOGL cvs and issues mailing lists.

The news on the JSR-231 front is good. Some key licensing issues relating to the JSR-231 Reference Implementation were finally resolved this past week. This opens up the JSR-231 branch in the JOGL source tree. You should see putbacks to the JSR-231 branch very soon. The new APIs are more flexible than the current ones in JOGL (for example, the GLContext will be exposed) but I believe that the experience we have gained in doing JOGL will allow us to implement the new APIs quickly and maintain good robustness across multiple platforms and graphics cards.

#4

Sweet, thanks for the update. =)

#5

Ken,

Does that mean JSR-231 will also cater to
those who need complete control over the
rendering thread, context management,
de-coupling from AWT/Swing when required?

.rex

#6

JSR-231 will allow the user more control over context management and threading and will not force the user to use the current callback mechanism. However, the only bindings we will provide in the reference implementation will be to the AWT and Swing widgets as well as pbuffers, although third parties can extend the RI to support other non-AWT toolkits.

#7

Thanks…

I will definitely share my joy with
you folks when the my project proposal
of using Java + JOGL gets approved.