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   <li><a href="#wisjaba">What is JABAWS?</a></li>
   <li><a href="#wjaba">JABAWS Benefits</a></li>
   <li><a href="#alprog">JABA Web Services Programs </a></li>
+  <li><a href="#jaba2">What is new in JABAWS 2?</a> </li>
   <li><a href="#jabaclient">What is JABAWS Client</a>?</li>
+  <li><a href="#jalviewsup">JABAWS versions compatibility and Jalview support </a></li>
   <li><a href="#cmdclient">Programmatic access to JABAWS</a></li>
   </ul>
 
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 <p>Amino Acid conservation </p>
 <ul>
   <li><span style="color:black; font-weight:normal; text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/aacon">AACon</a></span> (1.0) </li>
-</ul>
-<h3><a name="jabaclient" id="jabaclient"></a>What is JABAWS client?</h3>
+  </ul>
+<h3><a name="jaba2"></a>What is new in JABAWS 2? </h3>
+<p>Comparing to previous version of JABAWS JABAWS 2  offers a greater number of diverse web services, Amazon EC 2 integration and improved easy of use. It contains </p>
+<ul><li>updates for all multiple sequence alignment services </li>
+  <li>four new protein disorder prediction services</li>
+  <li>Clustal Omega multiple sequence alignment web service  </li>
+  <li>amino acid conservation service  </li>
+  <li>web services execution statistics visialization </li>
+  <li>web services  status check from a web page    </li>
+  <li>VirtualBox support was dropped in favour of VMware</li>
+  <li>new WAR package for Mac users    </li>
+  <li>Amazon Machine Image (AMI) distributive to enable users to use JABAWS on the EC2 cloud    </li>
+  <li>Improved web services client API     </li>
+  <li>Simplified WAR package installation  </li>
+  </ul>
+  
+    <h3><a name="jabaclient" id="jabaclient"></a>What is JABAWS client?</h3>
+
 <p>A JABAWS client is a program that lets you run the bioinformatics methods for which a JABAWS server provides web services. 
 The most basic JABAWS client is a command line Java application which can call any of the JABAWS web services methods 
 on any instance of JABAWS Server that it can reach over the web. It is useful if you 
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 out how to work with JABA Web Services if you would like to write your own client 
 software. <a href="http://www.jalview.org/">Jalview</a>, which is a multiple sequence alignment and analysis application, provides a graphical JABAWS client. This client has the same 
 functionality as the command line client, but instead allows JABAWS services to be accessed in a more user-friendly manner, through a graphical user interface.</p>
+<h3><a name="jalviewsup"></a>JABAWS versions compatibility and Jalview support </h3>
+<p>JABAWS version 2 is fully backward compatible with JABAWS  version 1. That means that all JABAWS 1 clients should be able to use JABAWS 2  instead. However, they will be limited to the multiple sequence alignment web  services only. To benefit of new web services introduced in JABAWS 2 the  clients have to be updated. <br>
+Jalview since version 2.6.1 integrates fully with JABAWS 1. Therefore  it will be possible to use any versions of Jalview after 2.6.1 with JABAWS 1.  However, the full support for JABAWS 2 is introduced in Jalview version 2.8 or later.</p>
 <h3><a name="cmdclient" id="cmdclient"></a>Programmatic access to JABAWS </h3>
 <p>JABA Web Services are WS-I basic profile compliant, which means they can be accessed using 
 any programming language or system that can utilize standard SOAP web services.