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# Jalview - A Sequence Alignment Editor and Viewer (Version 2.5.1)
# Copyright (C) 2010 J Procter, AM Waterhouse, G Barton, M Clamp, S Searle
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Building Jalview from Source
Building Jalview from Source
You will need the following (hopefully):
- Java development kit (we used JDK1.4SE but JDK1.5 will work too,
and maybe even jikes).
- Ant (we think 1.5.4 is quite sufficient to use the simple build
file supplied).
With any luck, after setting your paths and JAVA_HOME correctly, you
just need to change to the Jalview directory and run ant (this works
from JBuilder and eclipse too).
ant
Building a webstart version of jalview
Jalview depends on several libraries contained in the libs directory
of the distribution. In order to access them, they must all be signed
jars - using the same jarsigner key as jalview itself. There is a
build target in ant to make the signed jar files in a directory called
dist. But first you need to make your own key:
Making your own key
The ant 'makefulldist' target assumes that a keystore exists in a
directory 'keys'. To make a key accessible using the default settings
in the build.xml file then make the keys directory and add the
jarsigner key with the following :
mkdir keys
keytool -genkey -keystore keys/.keystore -keypass alignmentisfun
-storepass alignmentisfun -alias jalview
(you will have to answer some personal questions here)
ant makedist
(should eventually generate a Jalview.jnlp file
in ./dist along with a set of signed jars using the jalview
key)
Jalview development team