Web Services Preference Panel
The Web Services Preferences Dialog Box
Jalview includes a range of web services clients for data retrieval and analysis. The Web Services menu found in each alignment window provides access to some of these services, and is configured via the web services preference dialog box, available from the Preferences panel from the Tools→Preferences... menu from the Jalview Desktop window's menu bar.
Configuring the list of JABAWS servers
The main area of the panel shows the list of JABAWS
servers that Jalview is currently aware of. A server's URL may be added,
edited by double clicking on it, or deleted by selecting it and using
the buttons below. After adding or editing a server's URL, you will be
asked if you wish to test the server. If you wish to do so, then first
ensure you can view the new server's test report, which will be output
on Jalview's standard console output (you can open Jalview's built in
console viewer via the Tools→Java Console menu
option).
Controlling the layout of the Web Services Menu
The range of services that Jalview is able to access depends upon your
requirements, and local computational resources. However, when a large
number of resources are available, then the entries and sub menus in the
web services menu can quickly become unwieldly. The
options in the lower part of the dialog box enable you to control the
display of each type of analysis service client in the web services
menu. In addition, indexing options are provided that enable you to
define the layout of the menus provided for JABAWS services by sorting
them into submenus according to analysis type and/or host server.
The web services preferences panel was added in Jalview 2.6