Posted by Jarvis on Apr 03, 2013; 5:03pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/jogl-demos-fail-Failed-to-created-initialize-EGL-display-tp4028878p4028893.html

It seems you are definitely onto something.  In Netbeans, in my project properties, under the Run section, if I have the VM options set to "-Xmx256m -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni/ -Djogl.disable.opengles" I get an exception thrown, but the visualization window pops up and works.  If I remove the -Djogl.disable.opengles then it does not work.  However, this is true with both versions of the jogle/gluegen libs.  

I went ahead and opened a bug report on bugzilla, and provided the log files with and without the OpenGLES support.  https://jogamp.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=713