Running JABAWS on your local machine
-- Download JABAWS Virtual Appliance (520M) +
- Download JABAWS Virtual Appliance (520M)
- Launch the desktop version of Jalview +
- Launch the desktop version of Jalview
- Open the Jalview desktop's preferences panel (from the Tools->Preferences menu option), select the Webservices panel and press the New Service URL button.
- Enter the JABAWS URL for your new server. This is shown once the appliance is booted up.
The Virtual Appliance (VA) package allows you to run a JABAWS server installed on TurnKey Linux as a virtual machine on your laptop or desktop computer. A complete guide to the JABAWS VA is given in the manual, but for the impatient, a brief instructions are given below: @@ -68,9 +73,9 @@
If you work on Mac do the same using VMware Fusion, or for free alternative use a WAR JABAWS package.
Testing
-The easiest way to test that your JABAWS Virtual appliance is working is to use Jalview.
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To check that your JABAWS virtual appliance is working visit the Services Status page available from the main JABAWS menu. For this enter the JABAWS URL for your new server into a web browser. This is shown once the appliance is booted up.
+Alternatively you can use Jalview to complete the testing.
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Peter Troshin, Jim Procter and Geoff Barton, The Barton Group, University of Dundee, UK