Java OpenAL (JOAL) is one of several wrapper

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that allows Java programmers to access

OpenAL OpenAL (Open Audio Library) is a cross-platform audio application programming interface (API). It is designed for efficient rendering of multichannel three-dimensional positional audio. Its API style and conventions deliberately resemble those ...

. This allows

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programmers to use 3D sound in applications. JOAL is one of the libraries developed by the Sun Microsystems Game Technology Group. JOAL is released under a BSD license, and is available for Microsoft Windows,

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, and

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. Like its graphical counterpart,

Java OpenGL Java OpenGL (JOGL) is a wrapper library that allows OpenGL to be used in the Java programming language. It was originally developed by Kenneth Bradley Russell and Christopher John Kline, and was further developed by the Sun Microsystems Game Techn ...

(JOGL), JOAL was developed using the

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utility, a program that generates Java bindings from C header files. The official site on java.net was deleted in March 2011. The JOAL project, however, is still alive i
Jogamp.org JOAL

External links

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Download Link (2.0.2)JNAL - An alternative, JNA-based Java wrapper for OpenAL
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