Jalview Project Archives
These are java archives of an XML file containing alignments, trees and Jalview display information. A data exchange standard is currently being developed, so there is no stable schema yet, but Jalview web services will soon make use of the same interchange format.
For those who want to know...
Jalview uses java classes
automatically created using Castor.
Jalview 2.08 uses descriptor classes which significantly increase
the speed of marshalling / unmarshalling java objects into XML.
Files created prior to Jalview 2.08 can still be read in, but they
will be saved in the new format.