JogAmp Release v2.0-rc4

After tons of bug fixes and Mac OS X, Solaris and Android platform support
we finally have v2.0-rc4.

Besides many important bug fixes this release supports
Mac OS X 10.6.4 and 10.7.

The Applet browser plugin is also enhanced and validated
on all platforms for FF, Chrome, Safari and IE where supported.

http://jogamp.org/deployment/jogamp-current/jogl-test-applets.html

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We have to thank each other for our ongoing support,
bug reports, inspiration and pushing for results.

Thank you.

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The following aliasing of URL location has been made,
ie. all are aligned to v2.0-rc4 for now.

http://jogamp.org/deployment/

    v2.0-rc4 -> archive/rc/v2.0-rc4
    jogamp-current -> v2.0-rc4
    jogamp-next -> v2.0-rc4
    webstart -> v2.0-rc4
    webstart-next -> v2.0-rc4

Developer downloads at:
http://jogamp.org/deployment/v2.0-rc4/archive/

Git repositories have been tagged w/ v2.0-rc4.

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Planned for RC5 so far:

RC5:

    Maven2 integration (I know .. a bit late it is already)
    Mobile/Android autobuilds / release
    More bugfixes
    Update the graph package

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Please join the discussion in our forum:
  http://forum.jogamp.org/

You may like to comment on this release here:
  http://forum.jogamp.org/JogAmp-Release-Candidate-v2-0-rc4-td3554090.html

Cheers, Sven

As described earlier, v2.0-rc3 follows the new FHS
  <http://forum.jogamp.org/New-Deployment-FHS-Filesystem-Hierarchy-Standard-td3334675.html>.

Persistent URL
  - http://jogamp.org/deployment/v2.0-rc3/

Currently linked to
  - http://jogamp.org/deployment/jogamp-current/
  - http://jogamp.org/deployment/jogamp-next/

Developer 7z Archives
  - http://jogamp.org/deployment/v2.0-rc3/archive/

JOGL Test Applets
  - http://jogamp.org/deployment/jogamp-next/jogl-test-applets.html
 
  Yes, most of these are NEWT unit tests, launched via JOGLNewtApplet1Run
  <http://jogamp.org/deployment/jogamp-next/javadoc/jogl/javadoc/com/jogamp/newt/awt/applet/JOGLNewtApplet1Run.html>

JOGL-Demos Tests:
  - http://jogamp.org/deployment/jogamp-next/jogl-demos/test.html

  (Using Object/Embed tags now  w/ dual JNLPAppletLauncher & JNLP-Applets)

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And added a NEWT Overview page
  - http://jogamp.org/jogl/doc/NEWT-Overview.html

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Cheers, Sven

Dear JGO,

I thought it's about time to send you an update, since I don't know
if you read the JogAmp/JOGL forum.

While we had 'fun' at SIGGRAPH,
  http://ramisantina.com/blog/?p=109

(you know the sort of hard working fun)
  http://forum.jogamp.org/JOGL-Embedded-Device-Status-p1-td3261029.html#a3264149

we will (soon) release mobile device automated builds for Linux/ARM and Android/ARM
  http://jausoft.com/blog/2011/08/17/jogl-embedded-device-status-p1/

You might have noticed the new Graph/UI package for Curve/Nurbs rendering
  http://ramisantina.com/blog/?p=114
  http://vimeo.com/21810192
  http://jausoft.com/blog/2011/04/01/resolution-independent-gpu-accelerated-curve-font-rendering/

Last but not least stability and enhancements went into NEWT
  http://forum.jogamp.org/NEWT-Insets-window-decoration-and-other-fixes-td3312300.html
  http://forum.jogamp.org/Translucent-Window-Drawable-Support-td3305752.html
  http://forum.jogamp.org/JOGL-NEWT-Stability-Changes-Insets-Position-Size-Fullscreen-ScreenMode-GLX-Extensions-Animator-Lifec-td3325050.html

We also have a 'call for help' in regards to 'new' input device for NEWT
  http://forum.jogamp.org/JInput-integration-in-NEWT-td3319982.html

On the downside, no love for OSX yet .. well, if somebody likes to help
here or there - feel welcome and ping us on the jogamp forum.
Wade Walker .. and myself would love to coordinate efforts here for sure.

Soon (after) plugging in the Linux/ARM and Android/ARM devices to our Jenkins
continuous build system - having official builds for them, we will reach another release.

Kind regards & Cheers, Sven

I took the freedom and fwd your post to our forum.
http://jogamp.762907.n3.nabble.com/Feedback-on-Newt-bindings-by-lhkbob-td823824.html#a823824

You and everybody here is more than welcome to patch & discuss it in our new forum & home!

http://jogamp.org/
http://jogamp.org/forum.html -> http://jogamp.762907.n3.nabble.com/

The cool thing with this nabble forum we (JogAmp) use now, is that it can behave
like a mailinglist as well - ie you can let it forward messages via email and you can also send
messages to it via email. I love it - thx Michael. And all the web forum lovers and use that If too

So please feel invited to that JogAmp forum and discuss JOGL/JOCL/.. things there, thank you.

Since we moved to git, everybody is welcome to contribute and discuss things,
after a peer review and clarification we may pull changes etc.

Nothing and all .. depends what we need to do

Not me, I am an engineer, not a business man
If there is a cooperation using JOGL, ie for mobile platforms (hint hint),
and if they would love to see it alive, enhance projects with it (3d, A/V, scenegraphs, UI, ..) etc .. - contact me/us.
Support could be in many directions, offering signature support of the JAR bundles,
hardware/devices and last but not least compensation/employment.

It will stay open and free.

Well, the 'accident' with my homepage has nothing to do with Sun/Oracle,
but with my previous provider Webserve Canada
Whoever has the missing data, pls email it to me, I would be glad to add it back again.

However, yes, JOGL/NEWT/etc could not have been continued by myself
in it's free spirit as long I was employed by Sun, due to policy changes.
This problem is now solved.
We might want to cont. this discussion in the new thread I have started .. long live JOGL

As posted on my blog ..

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After a few hick-ups lately, the JOGL repositories (gluegen, jogl, jogl-demos and jogl-utils) are moved from kenai to github http://github.com/sgothel. The JOGL development team, will continue this project in it’s open source and free spirit. JOCL will follow this move as well.

Our first intermediate-term goals are

    * reproduce automated builds
    * recreated all web resources on free server space
    * receive a signature for the JAR files

Then we wish to continue with the actual development and deployment

Contributions are very welcome, and a new sponsor might be needed.

Further details about the project changes will be posted soon.

Thank you very much .. stay tuned.

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Yep, I am no more a Sun employee,
so your desire of independent contributions and lead [outside of Sun]
should be satisfied

Would be sweet if ** we ** can keep up the work ..

~Sven

Hi All,

I see lot's of bugs are files etc .. great stuff, thank you.

I shall spend a day or two to fix them, could you file an 'issue' or update your
information within the next days or so ?
At least a reference etc to this thread, so I have something easy to track them?
Thank you very much.

~Sven

1st of all - thank you for doing this!

Shouldn't we add these demos to the jogl repository, ie jogl-redbook,
or jogl-demos jogl/demos/src/redbook ?

Can it be compiled in a standalone environment like jogl-demos ?

If so .. I may go fwd and add it to jogl-demos, is that ok with you ?
License .. etc ?

Cheers, Sven

The current OpenMAX 'hack' is preliminar and only tested on the APX2500 (NV) and ES2.0.
A proper binding usable for desktop and mobile will follow up, it only needs more time and love
Currently plugin3 and JOGL2 fixes have priority.

The next OpenMAX step shall be to remove the NV dependencies, using desktop GL3 sync objects and if decode
to texture is not available, add a 'copy to texture stage'.
For desktop, I think we shall use bellagio as a implementation.
Any volunteers and ideas ?

http://kenai.com/projects/jogl/pages/FAQ#Bugreports_&_Testing

_and_ _PLEASE_ CC your report via email too - thank you!

Windows .. ? Well.
date/time .. etc ..
http://kenai.com/projects/jogl/pages/FAQ#Bugreports_&_Testing

might be related to the build system changes lately on Win32: MSVS -> MinGW

Thank you for finding this bug ..

Even though its obvious, but just for the sake of saving time
and for validation, can you (and everybody else please follow:
  http://kenai.com/projects/jogl/pages/FAQ#Bugreports_&_Testing

THANK YOU.

Sorry .. that is not true.
Nightly builds also produce the jogl-demos bytecode.
Check the STATUS log file .. it's all on OK.

http://download.java.net/media/jogl/builds/nightly/logs/

puzzling ..

For sure _we_ don't use a CPU busy loop in our code,
so it must be the other OS then hmm ..

How behave other native demos with swapInterval 0 and 1 ?

Thank you for finding this bug ..

Hopefully I have time to fix it this weekend.
However, feel free to send me a git repo / pull offer with a fix
I guess the native GL2 GLU version is buggy here.

Cheers, Sven

Sorry .. we don't really support Eclipse here

But as Micheal said, 'ant' should be no problem,
if you would follow the instructions ..
http://download.java.net/media/jogl/doc/HowToBuild.html

BTW .. your statement, 'JOAL works' .. makes me shiver a bit,
since it somehow looks like you are using the old gluegen .. do you ?

PLS make a proper bug report, ie 'ant -v' and send the file ..

The nightly builds have no problem here ..
http://download.java.net/media/jogl/builds/nightly/logs/

Thank you.

~Sven

http://kenai.com/projects/jogl/pages/FAQ#Bugreports_&_Testing

Please don't mix the new JOGL (2.x) with the old one JOGL 1.x .. !

Yeah .. haven't updated JOAL yet ..

All on dev.java.net is deprecated .. in regards to the new JOGL.

Looks like we have some JOAL users there ?
Somebody volunteering to bring it up with the new gluegen,
so we can integrate it in the kenai.com/projects/jogl workspace ?

Thank you ..

Just dbl checked .. it's in GL_VERSION_1_2, so it should be there ..

A simple line ..
System.err.println("   glConvolutionFilter2D: "+gl.isFunctionAvailable("glConvolutionFilter2D"));
returned 'true' ..

Pls provide a working example .. etc (-> FAQ).
Thank you.

Look in jogl-demo's src/demos/GLInfo.java how to query if an extension is available,
plus the function itself (should not be necessary).

If you are sure the extension plus function is present, therefor a JOGL bug,
please provide the bug information as requested in the FAQ .. thank you.
I doubt that it's a JOGL bug though .. since our aliased native function query method
within gluegen works quite well for a long time .. but you never know.

Yep .. use Pbuffers ..

http://download.java.net/media/jogl/jogl-2.x-docs/javax/media/opengl/GLDrawableFactory.html#createGLPbuffer%28javax.media.opengl.GLCapabilities,%20javax.media.opengl.GLCapabilitiesChooser,%20int,%20int,%20javax.media.opengl.GLContext%29

It's X11 impl. e.g. creates a default connection to the default display/screen .. then creates the
pbuffer drawable ..

Besides 'Grand Canyon Demo' (not incl. in jogl-demos),
the java2d/swing opengl bug is fixed, as well as the pbuffer one .. (WGL/GLX).

Have fun ..

Just added the OpenGL 3.2 extensions by hand ..
Nice exercise .. which lead to a few more aliased extensions in the realm of
3.0, 3.1 and 3.2 .. (be warned

http://download.java.net/media/jogl/jogl-2.x-docs/javax/media/opengl/GLAutoDrawable.html
2nd paragraph: "Another implementation detail is the drawable reconfiguration ..."

Explains it pretty well .. at least I thought it does

A GLEventListener impl. shall be able to handle multiple lifecycles, ie dispose/init ..
However .. a screenchange action doesn't seem to be necessary, at least my tests have shown this.

Thank you .. just synced the glext.h, added it for GL2.

I also added GL_ARB_geometry_shader4 in gl3ext.h for GL3,
I guess that's reasonable.
We shall see which extensions with new functions shall be added to GL3 ..,
since there is no official gl3ext.h filled yet ..

Will be in the nightlies tomorrow .. or fetch via git ..

@Orangy Tang:
Ok .. updated it in the FAQ and the spec - thank you !
http://kenai.com/projects/jogl/pages/FAQ#What_are_the_runtime_OpenGL_Version_Requirements_?

@Cork:
I guess we are very close after all reiterations, ie. just cleaned up the subsumed/promoted extensions within
the GL2 class (OpenGL 3.0) .. and the documentation targeting all these questions ..
You can see these changes in the current git, or tomorrow at
http://download.java.net/media/jogl/jogl-2.x-docs-next/

That is easy to add with a shell script, we did it for jogl-demos too ..

Then you also can just use:

and you are done.

In the end .. I guess you truly know why there is a GL2, GL3, GLES1, .. etc
marking the OpenGL profile in their name.
That's why GL cannot kept it's OpenGL 2.0 semantics.
Sorry ..

Cork, your help is very welcome, meaning if you can make a little writeup/transcript
of your own conversion, others could use that .. thank you.

And last but not least, you are very welcome.

~Sven

You have to give more arguments for your thesis.
We actually properly support all GL profiles, and the desktop GL2 backward compatibility.
Just checked (again) the GL 1_3 add-on's .. sure you can use JOGL with 1_2 only,
just check the extension if you intend to use it against such a setup.

I doubt that Intel does not support GL 1.3, which would mean no multiple texture units ..

Have fun ..

Don't worry .. the naming convention fight already happened - I won

GL2, because it mainly targets the merged GL2 profile plus extensions (incl. GL 3.0 extensions).
Note: GL 3.0 is available in a GL 2.0 impl. via extensions.

GL3 for GL3.1, because the whole 3.0 version was just a mistake by khronos.
Read: GL >= 3.1 headers are in GL3/gl3.h.

Good then ..