Joal Overview

History

OpenAL was originally developed in 2000 by Loki Software.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAL#History

JOAL was originally created by SUN Microsystems Game Technology Group in 2003. JogAmp took over maintenance of JOAL and is the current and only maintainer since 2011.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_OpenAL
• https://www.ohloh.net/p/joal - JOAL history since 2003.

JogAmp JOAL

• http://jogamp.org/joal/www/ - The JOAL Project hosts a reference implementation of the Java bindings for OpenAL API, and is designed to provide hardware-supported 3D spatialized audio for games written in Java.
  • The GIT source repository for JogAmp JOAL is available here: http://jogamp.org/git/?p=joal.git
• http://jogamp.org/joal-demos/www/ - The JOAL-Demos Project hosts a collection of turials and demonstrations illustred the features and usage of the Java bindings for OpenAL API and the Sound3D Toolkit.
  • The GIT source repository for JogAmp JOAL-Demos is available here: http://jogamp.org/git/?p=joal-demos.git

Starting in 2013 JogAmp builds of JOAL now include the OpenAL-soft OpenAL libraries. By including OpenAL-soft allow JOAL to function on platforms where no system OpenAL libraries is found.

• http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html
  • The GIT source repository for JogAmp OpenAL-soft is available here: http://jogamp.org/git/?p=openal-soft.git

JogAmp JOAL Builds

The latest stable version of JOAL is always included in the current JogAmp build: http://jogamp.org/deployment/jogamp-current/archive/jogamp-all-platforms.7z Refer to the following tutorial on how to setup JogAmp and JOAL in your favorite IDE: http://jogamp.org/wiki/index.php/Setting_up_a_JogAmp_project_in_your_favorite_IDE