Posted by Xerxes Rånby on Sep 26, 2015; 10:01am
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/LWUIT-NEWT-JOGL-Enlightenment-Wayland-Tizen-Phone-tp4035335p4035385.html

Peter wrote

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Presently the Tizen platform is the most open mobile platform capable of supporting an SE embedded JVM, headless at present due to a lack of Wayland support.
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Any idea of how far off NEWT / Wayland support might be, and who might be working on it?
Peter.

Hi Peter

I (Xerxes), Sven and Erik are working on Wayland support.

I recall Erik has already been able to open a NEWT wayland window
http://jogamp.org/log/irc/jogamp_20150422050533.html#l41

The hardest part is to figure out the right heuristics for wayland initialization
a GNU/Linux system may support Wayland, X11 and direct framebuffer output using the same driver thus we can't guess what the user prefer instead we have to query what the user uses at the moment.

I prefer if we did the heuristics in the following order

first try to open a wayland window -> if that fail then try to open an X11 window -> if that fail then try to open a direct framebuffer window.

the rationale of this order of initialization is that wayland can support opening both x11 and wayland windows however you will get the most performance if you get an wayland window.