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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <html>
 <!--
- * Jalview - A Sequence Alignment Editor and Viewer (Version 2.6)
- * Copyright (C) 2010 J Procter, AM Waterhouse, G Barton, M Clamp, S Searle
+ * Jalview - A Sequence Alignment Editor and Viewer (Version 2.7)
+ * Copyright (C) 2011 J Procter, AM Waterhouse, G Barton, M Clamp, S Searle
  * 
  * This file is part of Jalview.
  * 
@@ -26,13 +26,13 @@
 You will need the following (hopefully):<br>
 <ul>
 <li>Java development kit (we used JDK1.5SE but JDK1.6 will work too,
-and maybe even jikes).
+and maybe even jikes).</li>
 <li>Ant (we think 1.5.4 is quite sufficient to use the simple build
-file supplied).
+file supplied).</li>
 </ul>
 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).
+from JBuilder and eclipse too, but NetBeans is a bit trickier).
 <pre>
    ant
 </pre>
@@ -62,9 +62,36 @@ ant makedist
   key)
 </pre>
 
-<p>
-
-<p>
+	<p>
+		<strong>Building the JalviewLite applet<br>
+		</strong> The JalviewLite applet is compiled using a subset of the packages in
+		the src directory (specifically: MCView, and jalview.{datamodel,
+		analysis, appletgui, utils, schemes, api, structure}, and
+		com.stevesoft.*). Once compiled, these class files are obfuscated to
+		make the code run efficiently. To compile the applet Jar, use the
+		makeApplet task - optionally passing in a 'donotobfuscate' property to
+		the ant build (e.g. -Ddonotobfuscate=true) to disable obfuscation. </p><p>
+		The ant target 'pubapplet' can be used to compile install the
+		jalviewApplet.jar and any dependent jars (under appletlib) into a copy
+		of the examples directory created under the <em>outputDir</em> build
+		property (which defaults to the 'dist' directory).
+	</p>
+	<p>
+<h1>using IDEs to build Jalview</h1>
+	<p>The Jalview source distribution includes project definitions for
+		Eclipse, Netbeans and some rather ancient Borland JBuilder .jpx
+		project files. These files should be sufficient to set up basic source
+		folders and build paths, but you will need to ensure that all .jar
+		files in the lib and appletlib directories are added to the build path
+		for your IDE project, and that the 'buildindices' target in Jalview's
+		build.xml is executed with the 'outputDir' ant property set to the
+		directory where the IDE expects to place compiled classes ('classes'
+		directory for eclipse, 'build/classes' for netbeans).</p>
+	<p>Note: It is generally not recommended that you distribute build
+		artefacts that were generated automatically via an IDE's own packaging
+		mechanism (e.g. Netbeans' executable Jar and dependent lib directory).
+		The hand-crafted ant build.xml is (currently) the only officially
+		supported method of building distributable versions of Jalview.</p>
 <address>
 <a href="mailto:help@jalview.org">Jalview development team</a>
 </address>
