@@ -43,7 +46,11 @@ JABAWS Virtual Appliance (VA) - Running JABAWS for my group, lab, or organization + Running JABAWS on the cloud, for one or many users + JABAWS on the Amazon cloud + + + Running JABAWS for my group, lab, or organization on the local infrastructure JABAWS Web Application aRchive (WAR) @@ -54,7 +61,7 @@

Running JABAWS on your local machine

Download JABAWS Virtual Appliance (520M)

Download JABAWS Virtual Appliance (520M)

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: @@ -63,16 +70,12 @@

download and install VMWare Player.
Unpack the JABAWS virtual appliance and open it with VMware Player.

If you use a Mac, or prefer not to use VMWare, then :

download and install Virtual Box.
Unpack the JABAWS virtual appliance, import it into VirtualBox and then start the appliance.

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.

Launch the desktop version of Jalview

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.

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.

Last update: 1 April 2011
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Last update: 16 September 2011
Peter Troshin, Jim Procter and Geoff Barton, The Barton Group, University of Dundee, UK