Posted by gouessej on Sep 08, 2014; 1:25pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Big-trouble-with-ceating-mipmaps-automatically-tp4033083p4033089.html

Actually, JOGL GLU can use native GLU but by default it uses the Java implementation which doesn't require GL2 to create mipmaps:
https://github.com/sgothel/jogl/blob/master/src/jogl/classes/jogamp/opengl/glu/mipmap/Mipmap.java

glGenerateMipmap isn't deprecated anyway.