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-<title>Adding Groovy Support to Jalview
-</title>
-<body>
-<h1>
-Adding Groovy Support to Jalview
-</h1>
-<p>
-There is currently no scripting language
-extension within Jalview, in part because a
-scripting API has not yet been developed.
-</p>
-<p>It is, however, really easy to embed scripting
-engines like groovy. If groovy is detected on the
-classpath, a new menu entry on the Desktop's Tools
-menu will open the GroovyShell.
-</p>
-<p>Here are some scripts to get you started:</p>
-<ul><li>Getting the title, alignment and first sequence from the current alignFrame<br>
-<pre>
-def alf = Jalview.getAlignframes();
-print alf[0].getTitle();
-def alignment = alf[0].viewport.alignment;
-def seq = alignment.getSequenceAt(0);
-</pre>
-</li>
-</ul>
-<h1>Getting Groovy...</h1>
-<p>
-You need the core groovy jars which include the GroovyShell. The easiest way of doing
-this is to add the groovy-all-*.jar to the lib directory whose path is given in the java.ext.dirs property.</p>
-<p>The is obtained from the <em>embedded</em> directory within the <a
-href="http://dist.codehaus.org/groovy/distributions"/>groovy distribution</a>).
-</p>
-<h2>TODO</h2>
-<p>
-Using Java class methods from Groovy is straightforward, but currently, there isn't a set of easy to use methods for the jalview objects. A Jalview Scripting API needs to be developed to make this easier.</p>
-<h3>Making it easier</h3>
-<p>jalview.bin.JalviewScript could be a top level jalview instance of a script execution thread, creating and maintaining the context for scripts operating on the jalview datamodel and interfacing with the Jalview GUI.
-</p>
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