OSX Port of OpenAL (from JGO)

[cfmdobbie]

http://www.javagaming.org/cgi-bin/JGNetForums/YaBB.cgi?board=JOAL;action=display;num=1070666324

I noticed that the source for OpenAL is a bunch of interfaces to "C language funcs". Apple provides a Java native version of its CoreAudio I believe, so perhaps you could implement the OSX version of OpenAL in pure java.
(That is, unless you've already done so and the C interface is windows-specific)

Any thoughts on this?  Is it worth providing this as an alternative?

[elias]

We could probably do it but it isn't really worth the trouble because

1. It is already done in C anyway.
2. Very little of the OpenAL code is platform specific (in fact only the loading of the OpenAL library differs), so doing it in java can only really pay off if all supported platforms support it.

- elias