yes yes, good point. i think i will start with lwjgl, and as long as i wrote cleanly enough, transitioning to jogl if/when it becomes integrated into the vm (assuming i'm convinced to switch by that), shouldn't be a huge problem.

Don't think jogl will be part of the java runtime for many, many years. When it do you will have to wait until everyone upgraded to the latest java version. Who cares about "pure" java anyway. Lwjgl is only about 200k compressed, so it's not hurting your download size.

The biggest differance between jogl and lwjgl, is that jogl is integrated with awt. So if you need awt or Swing choose jogl, if not choose lwjgl.