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open gl to jogl

Steven Miller
I want to start getting into the jogl stuff pretty heavily.  I am currently going through a book on open gl. (the newest edition of the super bible).  As far as I understand then versions 3+ for open gl are alot different then open gl versions for 2.1 and lower, namely shaders and pipelines.  As I also understand then jogl is kind of a wrapper around open gl and calls it through the JNI platform.  I guess what I am trying to get to is does jogl support all versions of OPENGL at this time? (of course in its own java way)  So can I choose to program an application in open gl 2.0 methodology or 3.0 methodology?

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Michael Bien
  On 03/09/2011 05:09 PM, Steven Miller [via jogamp] wrote:
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> I want to start getting into the jogl stuff pretty heavily.  I am currently
> going through a book on open gl. (the newest edition of the super bible).
> As far as I understand then versions 3+ for open gl are alot different then
> open gl versions for 2.1 and lower, namely shaders and pipelines.  As I also
> understand then jogl is kind of a wrapper around open gl and calls it
> through the JNI platform.  I guess what I am trying to get to is does jogl
> support all versions of OPENGL at this time?
yes, all of them
> (of course in its own java way)
> So can I choose to program an application in open gl 2.0 methodology or 3.0
> methodology?
yes
you choose the GL version of the interface via the so called profiles:
http://michael-bien.com/mbien/entry/jogl_2_opengl_profiles_explained
-michael
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Re: open gl to jogl

Steven Miller
awesome!!! thanks for the response.