Posted by gouessej on Mar 03, 2016; 10:15am
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/DirectBuffer-deallocation-tp4035990p4036413.html

It's always a direct NIO buffer, it's written in the Java documentation of the method:
http://jogamp.org/deployment/jogamp-next/javadoc/gluegen/javadoc/com/jogamp/common/nio/PointerBuffer.html#allocateDirect(int)