The Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) is a solution aimed directly at professional and amateur Java programmers alike to enable commercial quality games to be written in Java. LWJGL provides developers access to high performance crossplatform libraries such as OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) and OpenAL (Open Audio Library) allowing for state of the art 3D games and 3D sound. Additionally LWJGL provides access to controllers such as Gamepads, Steering wheel and Joysticks. All in a simple and straight forward API.
LWJGL is not meant to make writing games particularly easy; it is primarily an enabling technology which allows developers to get at resources that are simply otherwise unavailable or poorly implemented on the existing Java platform. We anticipate that the LWJGL will, through evolution and extension, become the foundation for more complete game libraries and "game engines" as they have popularly become known, and hide some of the new evils we have had to expose in the APIs.
LWJGL is available under a BSD license, which means it's open source and freely available at no charge.
Please visit us on the Freenode IRC Network: #LWJGL. Do idle if there is no one to answer any of your questions, we are on different timezones.
The plugins were assembled by Jens von Pilgrim (developer@jevopi.de). All files related to this assembly, such as manifest files or plugin descriptors, are copyright under the Eclipse Public License (EPL) and the BSD license
The LWJGL Textview contains code copyright under the Eclipse Public License (EPL):
Copyright (c) 2000, 2005 IBM Corporation and others. All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution, and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.htmlThe source of this code can be found at: http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet195.java?view=markup&content-type=text%2Fvnd.viewcvs-markup&revision=HEAD
LWJGL contains code copyright under Mesa (MIT) License. Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Brian Paul All Rights Reserved.
LWJGL contains code copyright under BSD License. Copyright (c) 2002, Lev Povalahev
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ecj.jar and org.eclipse.osgi.jar are used for compiling the test view. These two files are copyright under the Eclipse Public License (EPL).
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