Hardware Acceleration In OpenGL

ok, i need some help with this, anything will work (reference material, book names, a gun,etc, etc)…
i have a ton of opengl tutorials and extra material but i need to know how to start programming opengl in java using my video hardware to render the images. i might be way over my head but… any help would be appreciated

Goto NeHe’s Site
http://nehe.gamedev.net

He has good tutorials there. Some of them have ports to the Java language, especially the early ones.

Hope that helps
CoBour