JABAWS Server Virtual Machine

JABAWS virtual machine is a way of running fully functional JABA Web Services on your own computer. To use virtual machine (VM) you have to install a software for running it. We would recommend VMWare Player for Windows and Linux users. There is also an Oracle VirtualBox (version 3.2.12) for Mac users. Both are free and installation is simple. Jalview can use your local JABAWS VM.

  • JABAWS Virtual Appliance: download (520M)

Please check out our manual for the detailed instructions.

JABAWS Server Web Application

The JABAWS Server Web Application aRchive (WAR) version is for you if you want to deploy JABAWS for many users e.g. your laboratory or if you are an expert user and want to have more control on JABAWS. Typically, you will have a cluster or at least a powerful server machine which all users are willing to use. If you only have a single server then, you may use JABAWS Server Virtual Appliance instead. The server is provided as a self-contained Web Application aRchive (WAR) containing all necessary binaries. WAR file can be deployed on any web application server supporting at least version 2.4 of the Java servlet specification, i.e. Tomcat 6.0.

  • A Complete Server for all platforms: download (45M)

Please bear in mind that if you deploy JABAWS WAR on Windows, only the Muscle and Clustal web services will work! If you want to run the other web services on Windows, then use the JABAWS Server VM package instead.

JABAWS Command Line Client

The command line client is an executable Java program for scripting against JABA web services. Its also useful as an example of how to access JABAWS services if you intend to use JABAWS in your own program, with functions demonstrating how to discover command line parameters and presets supported by a service, and how to run, monitor and retrieve the results of a job. Note: The client is used in the Jalview 2.6.1 source code to autogenerate a graphical user interface for JABA services.

The command line client will display help documentation if it is run with no arguments, the same information is also given in the command line client's manual page.

Version

Current JABAWS version is 1.1 release date 7 April 2011. Please consult the change log file for the breakdown of the changes.