How to bundle JOGL with NetBeans Platform?

Question

I was going to use both JOGL and NetBeans platform. I have trouble embedding JOGL native libs. Maybe there is a simple way to reuse .nbms from NetBeans OpenGL Plugin? Or any other way to do this?

Answer 1

Reusing NBMs from NetBeans OpenGL Pack should work at least for NetBeans 7.1. Have a look at this post: http://netbeans.dzone.com/nb-getting-started-jogl.

If you are using Maven, a quick solution is to create a wrapper module for JOGL and Gluegen with the following dependencies:

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.jogamp.jogl</groupId>
        <artifactId>jogl-all-main</artifactId>
        <version>2.0-rc9</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.jogamp.gluegen</groupId>
        <artifactId>gluegen-rt-main</artifactId>
        <version>2.0-rc9</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

It is essential to add the following public package definitions to the nbm-maven-plugin configuration:

<publicPackages>
    <publicPackage>com.jogamp.*</publicPackage>
    <publicPackage>javax.media.*</publicPackage>
    <publicPackage>jogamp.*</publicPackage>
</publicPackages>

I suppose a wrapper module can be created from NetBeans IDE, though I haven't tried that.