This allows Java 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, Mac OS X, and Linux.
Like its graphical counterpart, Java OpenGL (JOGL), JOAL was developed using the GlueGen utility, a program that generates Java bindings from C header files.
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