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- * 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, J Engelhardt, LM Lui, G Barton, M Clamp, S Searle
*
* This file is part of Jalview.
*
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>
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</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>
git://source.jalview.org / jalview.git / blobdiff