<strong>Jalview Project Archives</strong>
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- <p>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.</p>
+ <p>These are Zip archives of an XML file containing alignments,
+ trees, Principal Component Analyses (since 2.11.0), 3D structures,
+ and display information for Jalview, VARNA, Jmol and UCSF Chimera.
+ XML documents conform to a schema, and changes to the format are
+ made to ensure future versions of Jalview will be able to read old
+ Jalview project files.</p>
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- For those who want to know...<br> Jalview uses java classes
- automatically created using <a href="http://www.castor.org">Castor</a>.
- 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.
+ <em>For those who want to know...</em><br> Jalview 2.11.0
+ onwards employ the JAX-B java to XML binding framework to read and
+ write Jalview project files. Earlier versions of Jalview employed <a
+ href="http://www.castor.org">Castor</a>. Jalview 2.08 used
+ descriptor classes which significantly increase the speed of
+ marshalling / unmarshalling java objects into XML. <br /> <br />
+ Files created prior to Jalview 2.08 can no longer be read by Jalview
+ 2.11.0. If you need to import old project files, then please import
+ them to Jalview 2.10.5 (available from the Jalview version archive)
+ and save the project again to convert it to the new format.
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