I am wanting to display a 3D scene and then have a status panel in front of it. As an example imagine a game like Warcraft where there is a 3D area and then a 2D area for the status of health, etc. One approach I could use is to have two panels: the GLCanvas and in front of it a semi transparent Panel withe what I need, or go whole hog with JOGL in the GLCanvas. I haven't tried either but I would certainly be interested to find a solution where everything can be done in OpenGL. The main issue I am worrying about is not having 3D objects move through the status panel. Any suggestions?