Running Jalview from the command line
Jalview is most easily run from the command line if you have built it from source, or via the 'Jalview' executable created from the InstallAnywhere Jalview installation. Both of these mechanisms allow true command line execution of Jalview - allowing you to provide additional options.
The Java Webstart version of Jalview can be executed from the command line using something like :
javaws http://www.jalview.org/webstart/jalview.jnlp -open yourFileNameBut, this is not guaranteed to work on all versions of webstart on all operating systems, and doesn't let you execute Jalview with any additional parameters.
Running Jalview from the InstallAnywhere installation
If you install with InstallAnywhere you can use several more
commands. However, if you call the application with the link
provided by InstallAnywhere any output from the application will be
sent to output.txt, not standard out.
The Jalview
application also requires a number of additional libraries on the
class path. The command line below adds all the jar files in the
Jalview installation's 'lib' directory to the classpath, as well as
the Jalview application jar file:
java -classpath "$INSTALL_DIR$/lib/*:$INSTALL_DIR$/jalview.jar" jalview.bin.Jalview -open [FILE]
Use '-help' to get more information on the command line arguments that Jalview accepts.