Physics with JOGL (Java, OpenGL)

Question

I'm doing a little project to teach myself about JOGL. Some of my ideas would be easier with a physics engine. Is there a 3D physics engine that's particularly good, or is commonly used with JOGL?

Answer 1

Try jinngine. http://code.google.com/p/jinngine/

I have looked into such frameworks but my apps have been simple enough to do physics more manually with JOGL, such as applying gravity to a reasonably small sized array of objects, making a distance map to calculate collisions, etc.

Answer 2

Take a look at bullet and here the Java port.
Or at this wiki page where a few engines are listed.

Answer 3

You can find some recent examples of JOGL & JBullet used together there: http://github.com/sgothel/jogl-demos/tree/master/src/jbullet/src/javabullet/demos/