The Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) is an open source Java software library for game developers.

LWJGL exposes high performance cross-platform libraries commonly used in developing software games and multimedia titles. It exposes OpenGL (Open Graphics Library), OpenAL (Open Audio Library) and allows access to controllers such as Gamepads, Steering wheel and Joysticks in a platform neutral way.

The primary goal of the project is to provide a technology which allows Java developers to get access to resources that are otherwise unavailable or poorly implemented on the existing Java platform. The main philosophy is to expose underlying technology as a thin wrapper, thus creating a simple API. It has been the foundation of other complete game libraries and "game engines" such as the jMonkey Engine or Jake2.

LWJGL is available under a BSD license, which means it's open source and freely available.

Version 2.0 was released October 26th, 2008, with new OpenGL 3 and support for Solaris. The current version is 2.0.1, which was released on November, 2008.

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