3 * Jalview - A Sequence Alignment Editor and Viewer (Version 2.6)
4 * Copyright (C) 2010 J Procter, AM Waterhouse, G Barton, M Clamp, S Searle
6 * This file is part of Jalview.
8 * Jalview is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
9 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
10 * as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
12 * Jalview is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
13 * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty
14 * of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
15 * PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
17 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Jalview. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
20 <title>Building Jalview from Source</title>
23 <h1>Building Jalview from Source</h1>
26 You will need the following (hopefully):<br>
28 <li>Java development kit (we used JDK1.5SE but JDK1.6 will work too,
29 and maybe even jikes).
30 <li>Ant (we think 1.5.4 is quite sufficient to use the simple build
33 With any luck, after setting your paths and JAVA_HOME correctly, you
34 just need to change to the Jalview directory and run ant (this works
35 from JBuilder and eclipse too).
41 <p><strong>Building a webstart version of jalview</strong></p>
42 Jalview depends on several libraries contained in the libs directory
43 of the distribution. In order to access them, they must all be signed
44 jars - using the same jarsigner key as jalview itself. There is a
45 build target in ant to make the signed jar files in a directory called
46 dist. But first you need to make your own key:
47 <p><strong>Making your own key</strong></p>
49 <p>The ant 'makefulldist' target assumes that a keystore exists in a
50 directory 'keys'. To make a key accessible using the default settings
51 in the build.xml file then make the keys directory and add the
52 jarsigner key with the following :
56 keytool -genkey -keystore keys/.keystore -keypass alignmentisfun
57 -storepass alignmentisfun -alias jalview
58 (you will have to answer some personal questions here)
60 (should eventually generate a Jalview.jnlp file
61 in ./dist along with a set of signed jars using the jalview
69 <a href="mailto:help@jalview.org">Jalview development team</a>