Please Note: The JABAWS WAR is not generally compatible with older Mac systems based on the PowerPC architecture, since Java 1.6 is not available to run JABAWS. +href="http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi">Apache-Tomcat web application server version 7, but older Tomcat versions above 5.5 would work too.
+Please Note: The JABAWS WAR is not generally compatible with older Mac systems based on the PowerPC architecture, since Java 1.6 is not available to run JABAWS. -
JABAWS Web Application aRchive can run on any host operating system that supports Java 1.6. However JABAWS depends on a number of third party programs which are not available for all operating systems. In particular, only Clustal and Muscle are currently available for MS Windows platform. +
JABAWS Web Application aRchive can run on any host operating system that supports Java 1.6. However JABAWS depends on a number of third party programs which are not available for all operating systems. In particular, not all web services are currently available for MS Windows platform.
-JABAWS comes with pre-compiled MS Windows and Linux IA32 binaries, as well as the source code and build scripts necessary to recompile them.
+JABAWS comes with pre-compiled MS Windows and Linux x86 binaries, as well as the source code and build scripts necessary to recompile them.
To run JABAWS on the cluster you must have shared disk space accessible from all cluster nodes.
Installing the JABAWS WAR file
JABAWS is distributed as a web application archive (WAR). To @@ -182,8 +186,7 @@ Then the default configuration will work for you. More information about the Executable.properties file is given in the JABAWS Configuration chapter.
-Obtaining alignment -programs for your operating system
+Obtaining command line binaries for your operating system
You could search for pre-packaged compiled executable in your system package repository or alternately, download pre-compiled @@ -192,11 +195,13 @@ replace the executables supplied with the downloaded ones, or modify the paths in executable.properties as described above. Below are some suggestions on where you may be able to get the binaries for your system.
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- Clustal Omega
- ClustalW
- Mafft
- Muscle
- Tcoffee -
- Probcons (Linux x86 | x64) +
- Probcons (Linux x86 | x64 | Mac) +
- IUPred (Linux x86 | x64 | Mac)
Testing JABAWS Server
First of all make sure that Tomcat server is started successfully. If this was the case, then you should see JABAWS home page when you navigate to your Tomcat JABAWS context path e.g. http://myhost.compbio.ac.uk:8080/jabawsIf you see it, then it is time to make sure that web services are working too. Assuming that you have unpacked/deployed JABAWS from the server war file, you should be able to navigate to the test program which can be found in <webapplicationpath>/WEB-INF/lib/jabaws-client.jar file. To run the tests type: java -jar jabaws-client.jar -h=<Your web application server host name, port and JABAWS context path>
@@ -240,7 +245,7 @@ modify the paths in -+
Peter Troshin, Jim Procter and Geoff Barton, The Barton Group, University of Dundee, UK