Java OpenAL is one of several wrapper libraries that allows Java programmers to access OpenAL

OpenAL

OpenAL is a cross-platform audio API. It is designed for efficient rendering of multichannel three dimensional positional audio. Its API style and conventions deliberately resemble those of OpenGL.- History :...

. This allows Java programmers to use 3D sound in applications. JOAL is one of the libraries developed by the Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...

 Game Technology Group. JOAL is released under a BSD license, and is available for Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

, Mac OS X

Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

, and Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

. Like its graphical counterpart, Java OpenGL

Java OpenGL

Java OpenGL is a wrapper library that allows OpenGL to be used in the Java programming language. It was originally developed by Kenneth Bradley Russell and Christopher John Kline, and was further developed by the Sun Microsystems Game Technology Group. Since 2010, it has been an independent open...

 (JOGL), JOAL was developed using the GlueGen

Gluegen

GlueGen is a Java tool which automatically generates the Java and Java Native Interface code needed to call C libraries from Java code. It reads in ANSI C header files and GlueGen configuration files, and emits C code...

 utility, a program that generates Java bindings from C

C (programming language)

C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system....

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The official site on java.net was deleted in March 2011. The JOAL project, however, is still alive in Jogamp.org.

External links

• Download Link (2.0-rc2)