Posted by Deedee on Sep 06, 2013; 4:14pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/TextRenderer-my-text-won-t-show-tp4029291p4029997.html

Thank you for the posts, Professor LordSmoke. I believe I finally solved the problem using the new libraries (as of July).  
chakie, I added a VAO for the text. I bind it before the textrenderer initialization and then again before rendering the text similarly to the way I do it for the other objects. So basically I added
gl.glBindVertexArray(textVAO);
before initialization and before rendering.
Let me know if it helps you. I can also post an update of the example.
This whole time I assumed that this is taken care of since I don't specify any information for the text vertices.