The Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) provides access to high performance, cross-platform libraries OpenGL and OpenAL. Additionally LWJGL provides access to controllers such as Gamepads, Steering wheel and Joysticks.

The Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) provides access to high performance, cross-platform libraries OpenGL, OpenCL and OpenAL. Additionally LWJGL provides access to controllers such as Gamepads, Steering wheel and Joysticks.

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.

LWJGL is available under a BSD license, which means it's open source and freely available at no charge.

LWJGL version 3 is a complete rewrite of LWJGL, which removed some functionality in favor of new API bindings like GLFW.

Links

  • Legacy LWJGL.org - Homepage of Lightweight Java Game Library until version 2.9.3
  • LWJGL.org - Homepage of the Lightweight Java Game Library since version 3