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 micro-systems part of their Java gaming group in 2003. JogAmp took over maintance of JOAL and is the only maintainer since 2011.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_OpenAL

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