"Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide fast access to the graphics framebuffer and audio device. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games, including the award winning Linux port of "Civilization: Call To Power." Simple DirectMedia Layer supports Linux, Win32, BeOS, MacOS, Solaris, IRIX, and FreeBSD." - www.libsdl.org

SDL4Java is a java wrapper for the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) which was made to give Java programmers the ability to create cross-platform multimedia applications. But unlike other Java ports of SDL the goal was made to make the API more object oriented and easy to understand.