JAL-3369 JAL-3253-applet adds JS app.showOverview()
[jalview.git] / src / jalview / bin / Jalview.java
index 8ad4cbd..28d029c 100755 (executable)
  */
 package jalview.bin;
 
+import jalview.api.AlignFrameI;
+import jalview.api.AlignViewportI;
+import jalview.api.JalviewApp;
+import jalview.api.StructureSelectionManagerProvider;
+import jalview.bin.ApplicationSingletonProvider.ApplicationSingletonI;
+import jalview.datamodel.ColumnSelection;
+import jalview.datamodel.HiddenColumns;
+import jalview.datamodel.PDBEntry;
+import jalview.datamodel.SequenceGroup;
+import jalview.datamodel.SequenceI;
+import jalview.ext.so.SequenceOntology;
 import jalview.gui.AlignFrame;
+import jalview.gui.AlignViewport;
+import jalview.gui.AlignmentPanel;
+import jalview.gui.CalculationChooser;
 import jalview.gui.Desktop;
+import jalview.gui.Preferences;
+import jalview.gui.PromptUserConfig;
+import jalview.gui.StructureViewer;
+import jalview.io.AppletFormatAdapter;
 import jalview.io.BioJsHTMLOutput;
+import jalview.io.DataSourceType;
+import jalview.io.FileFormat;
+import jalview.io.FileFormatException;
+import jalview.io.FileFormatI;
+import jalview.io.FileFormats;
+import jalview.io.FileLoader;
 import jalview.io.HtmlSvgOutput;
+import jalview.io.IdentifyFile;
+import jalview.io.NewickFile;
+import jalview.io.gff.SequenceOntologyFactory;
+import jalview.javascript.JSFunctionExec;
+import jalview.javascript.MouseOverStructureListener;
+import jalview.renderer.seqfeatures.FeatureRenderer;
+import jalview.schemes.ColourSchemeI;
+import jalview.schemes.ColourSchemeProperty;
+import jalview.structure.SelectionSource;
+import jalview.structure.VamsasSource;
 import jalview.util.MessageManager;
 import jalview.util.Platform;
 import jalview.ws.jws2.Jws2Discoverer;
 
-import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
-import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
+import java.applet.AppletContext;
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
 import java.io.PrintWriter;
-import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 import java.net.URI;
+import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 import java.net.URL;
-import java.net.URLDecoder;
 import java.security.AllPermission;
 import java.security.CodeSource;
 import java.security.PermissionCollection;
 import java.security.Permissions;
 import java.security.Policy;
 import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Hashtable;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Vector;
 
+import javax.swing.LookAndFeel;
 import javax.swing.UIManager;
-import javax.swing.UnsupportedLookAndFeelException;
+
+import groovy.lang.Binding;
+import groovy.util.GroovyScriptEngine;
+import netscape.javascript.JSObject;
 
 /**
  * Main class for Jalview Application <br>
  * <br>
- * start with java -Djava.ext.dirs=$PATH_TO_LIB$ jalview.bin.Jalview
+ * start with: java -classpath "$PATH_TO_LIB$/*:$PATH_TO_CLASSES$" \
+ * jalview.bin.Jalview
+ * 
+ * or on Windows: java -classpath "$PATH_TO_LIB$/*;$PATH_TO_CLASSES$" \
+ * jalview.bin.Jalview jalview.bin.Jalview
+ * 
+ * (ensure -classpath arg is quoted to avoid shell expansion of '*' and do not
+ * embellish '*' to e.g. '*.jar')
  * 
  * @author $author$
  * @version $Revision$
  */
-public class Jalview
+public class Jalview implements ApplicationSingletonI, JalviewJSApi
 {
+
+  public static Jalview getInstance()
+  {
+    return (Jalview) ApplicationSingletonProvider
+            .getInstance(Jalview.class);
+  }
+
+  private Jalview()
+  {
+  }
+
+  static
+  {
+    Platform.getURLCommandArguments();
+  }
+
+  private boolean headless;
+
+  public static boolean isHeadlessMode()
+  {
+    return getInstance().headless;
+  }
+
+  private Desktop desktop;
+
+  private AlignFrame currentAlignFrame;
+
+  public boolean isJavaAppletTag;
+
+  public String appletResourcePath;
+
+  JalviewAppLoader appLoader;
+
+  protected JSFunctionExec jsFunctionExec;
+
+  private boolean noCalculation, noMenuBar, noStatus;
+
+  private boolean noAnnotation;
+
+  public boolean getStartCalculations()
+  {
+    return !noCalculation;
+  }
+
+  public boolean getAllowMenuBar()
+  {
+    return !noMenuBar;
+  }
+
+  public boolean getShowStatus()
+  {
+    return !noStatus;
+  }
+
+  public boolean getShowAnnotation()
+  {
+    return !noAnnotation;
+  }
+
+  public static AlignFrame getCurrentAlignFrame()
+  {
+    return getInstance().currentAlignFrame;
+  }
+
+  public static void setCurrentAlignFrame(AlignFrame currentAlignFrame)
+  {
+    getInstance().currentAlignFrame = currentAlignFrame;
+  }
+
   static
   {
-    // grab all the rights we can the JVM
-    Policy.setPolicy(new Policy()
+    if (!Platform.isJS())
+    /**
+     * Java only
+     * 
+     * @j2sIgnore
+     */
     {
-      public PermissionCollection getPermissions(CodeSource codesource)
+      // grab all the rights we can for the JVM
+      Policy.setPolicy(new Policy()
       {
-        Permissions perms = new Permissions();
-        perms.add(new AllPermission());
-        return (perms);
-      }
+        @Override
+        public PermissionCollection getPermissions(CodeSource codesource)
+        {
+          Permissions perms = new Permissions();
+          perms.add(new AllPermission());
+          return (perms);
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void refresh()
+        {
+        }
+      });
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * keep track of feature fetching tasks.
+   * 
+   * @author JimP
+   * 
+   */
+  class FeatureFetcher
+  {
+    /*
+     * TODO: generalise to track all jalview events to orchestrate batch
+     * processing events.
+     */
+
+    private int queued = 0;
+
+    private int running = 0;
 
-      public void refresh()
+    public FeatureFetcher()
+    {
+
+    }
+
+    public void addFetcher(final AlignFrame af,
+            final Vector<String> dasSources)
+    {
+      final long id = System.currentTimeMillis();
+      queued++;
+      final FeatureFetcher us = this;
+      new Thread(new Runnable()
       {
-      }
-    });
+
+        @Override
+        public void run()
+        {
+          synchronized (us)
+          {
+            queued--;
+            running++;
+          }
+
+          af.setProgressBar(MessageManager
+                  .getString("status.das_features_being_retrived"), id);
+          af.featureSettings_actionPerformed(null);
+          af.setProgressBar(null, id);
+          synchronized (us)
+          {
+            running--;
+          }
+        }
+      }).start();
+    }
+
+    public synchronized boolean allFinished()
+    {
+      return queued == 0 && running == 0;
+    }
+
   }
 
   /**
@@ -89,52 +272,97 @@ public class Jalview
    */
   public static void main(String[] args)
   {
-    System.out.println("Java version: "
-            + System.getProperty("java.version"));
+    // Platform.startJavaLogging();
+    getInstance().doMain(args);
+  }
+
+
+  @SuppressWarnings("unused")
+  /**
+   * @param args
+   */
+  void doMain(String[] args)
+  {
+
+    boolean isJS = Platform.isJS();
+    if (isJS)
+    {
+      Platform.setAppClass(this);
+    }
+    else
+    {
+      System.setSecurityManager(null);
+    }
+
+    System.out
+            .println("Java version: " + System.getProperty("java.version"));
     System.out.println(System.getProperty("os.arch") + " "
             + System.getProperty("os.name") + " "
             + System.getProperty("os.version"));
 
     ArgsParser aparser = new ArgsParser(args);
-    boolean headless = false;
 
-    if (aparser.contains("help") || aparser.contains("h"))
-    {
-      showUsage();
-      System.exit(0);
-    }
-    if (aparser.contains("nodisplay") || aparser.contains("nogui")
-            || aparser.contains("headless"))
+    String usrPropsFile = aparser.getValue(ArgsParser.PROPS);
+    Cache.loadProperties(usrPropsFile);
+    if (isJS)
     {
-      System.setProperty("java.awt.headless", "true");
-      headless = true;
+      isJavaAppletTag = aparser.isApplet();
+      if (isJavaAppletTag)
+      {
+        Preferences.setAppletDefaults();
+        Cache.loadProperties(usrPropsFile); // again, because we
+        // might be changing defaults here?
+      }
+      System.out.println(
+              "<Applet> found: " + aparser.getValue("Info.j2sAppletID"));
+      appletResourcePath = aparser.getValue("Info.resourcePath");
     }
-    String usrPropsFile = aparser.getValue("props");
-    Cache.loadProperties(usrPropsFile); // must do this before
-    if (usrPropsFile != null)
+    else
+    /**
+     * Java only
+     * 
+     * @j2sIgnore
+     */
     {
-      System.out.println("CMD [-props " + usrPropsFile
-              + "] executed successfully!");
-    }
-
-    // anything else!
+      if (usrPropsFile != null)
+      {
+        System.out.println(
+                "CMD [-props " + usrPropsFile + "] executed successfully!");
+      }
 
-    final String jabawsUrl = aparser.getValue("jabaws");
-    if (jabawsUrl != null)
-    {
-      try
+      if (aparser.contains("help") || aparser.contains("h"))
       {
-        Jws2Discoverer.getDiscoverer().setPreferredUrl(jabawsUrl);
-        System.out.println("CMD [-jabaws " + jabawsUrl
-                + "] executed successfully!");
-      } catch (MalformedURLException e)
+        showUsage();
+        System.exit(0);
+      }
+      if (aparser.contains(ArgsParser.NODISPLAY)
+              || aparser.contains(ArgsParser.NOGUI)
+              || aparser.contains(ArgsParser.HEADLESS)
+              || "true".equals(System.getProperty("java.awt.headless")))
       {
-        System.err.println("Invalid jabaws parameter: " + jabawsUrl
-                + " ignored");
+        headless = true;
+      }
+
+      // anything else!
+
+      final String jabawsUrl = aparser.getValue(ArgsParser.JABAWS);
+      if (jabawsUrl != null)
+      {
+        try
+        {
+          Jws2Discoverer.getInstance().setPreferredUrl(jabawsUrl);
+          System.out.println(
+                  "CMD [-jabaws " + jabawsUrl + "] executed successfully!");
+        } catch (MalformedURLException e)
+        {
+          System.err.println(
+                  "Invalid jabaws parameter: " + jabawsUrl + " ignored");
+        }
       }
-    }
 
-    String defs = aparser.getValue("setprop");
+    }
+    // check for property setting
+    String defs = aparser.getValue(ArgsParser.SETPROP);
     while (defs != null)
     {
       int p = defs.indexOf('=');
@@ -145,343 +373,451 @@ public class Jalview
       else
       {
         System.out.println("Executing setprop argument: " + defs);
-        // DISABLED FOR SECURITY REASONS
-        // TODO: add a property to allow properties to be overriden by cli args
-        // Cache.setProperty(defs.substring(0,p), defs.substring(p+1));
+        if (isJS)
+        {
+          Cache.setProperty(defs.substring(0, p), defs.substring(p + 1));
+        }
       }
-      defs = aparser.getValue("setprop");
-    }
-    if (System.getProperty("java.awt.headless") != null
-            && System.getProperty("java.awt.headless").equals("true"))
-    {
-      headless = true;
+      defs = aparser.getValue(ArgsParser.SETPROP);
     }
     System.setProperty("http.agent",
             "Jalview Desktop/" + Cache.getDefault("VERSION", "Unknown"));
     try
     {
       Cache.initLogger();
-    } catch (java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError error)
+    } catch (NoClassDefFoundError error)
     {
       error.printStackTrace();
-      System.out
-              .println("\nEssential logging libraries not found."
-                      + "\nUse: java -Djava.ext.dirs=$PATH_TO_LIB$ jalview.bin.Jalview");
+      System.out.println("\nEssential logging libraries not found."
+              + "\nUse: java -classpath \"$PATH_TO_LIB$/*:$PATH_TO_CLASSES$\" jalview.bin.Jalview");
       System.exit(0);
     }
 
-    Desktop desktop = null;
+    desktop = null;
 
     try
     {
       UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
     } catch (Exception ex)
     {
+      System.err.println("Unexpected Look and Feel Exception");
+      ex.printStackTrace();
     }
-    if (new Platform().isAMac())
+    if (Platform.isAMacAndNotJS())
     {
+
+      LookAndFeel lookAndFeel = ch.randelshofer.quaqua.QuaquaManager
+              .getLookAndFeel();
       System.setProperty("com.apple.mrj.application.apple.menu.about.name",
               "Jalview");
       System.setProperty("apple.laf.useScreenMenuBar", "true");
-      try
+      if (lookAndFeel != null)
       {
-        UIManager.setLookAndFeel(ch.randelshofer.quaqua.QuaquaManager
-                .getLookAndFeel());
-      } catch (UnsupportedLookAndFeelException e)
+        try
+        {
+          UIManager.setLookAndFeel(lookAndFeel);
+        } catch (Throwable e)
+        {
+          System.err.println(
+                  "Failed to set QuaQua look and feel: " + e.toString());
+        }
+      }
+      if (lookAndFeel == null
+              || !(lookAndFeel.getClass().isAssignableFrom(
+                      UIManager.getLookAndFeel().getClass()))
+              || !UIManager.getLookAndFeel().getClass().toString()
+                      .toLowerCase().contains("quaqua"))
       {
-        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
-        e.printStackTrace();
+        try
+        {
+          System.err.println(
+                  "Quaqua LaF not available on this plaform. Using VAqua(4).\nSee https://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-2976");
+          UIManager.setLookAndFeel("org.violetlib.aqua.AquaLookAndFeel");
+        } catch (Throwable e)
+        {
+          System.err.println(
+                  "Failed to reset look and feel: " + e.toString());
+        }
       }
     }
 
+    /*
+     * configure 'full' SO model if preferences say to, 
+     * else use the default (SO Lite)
+     */
+    if (Cache.getDefault(Preferences.USE_FULL_SO, false))
+    {
+      SequenceOntologyFactory.setSequenceOntology(new SequenceOntology());
+    }
+
     if (!headless)
     {
-      desktop = new Desktop();
+      desktop = Desktop.getInstance();
       desktop.setInBatchMode(true); // indicate we are starting up
       desktop.setVisible(true);
-      desktop.startServiceDiscovery();
-      if (!aparser.contains("nousagestats"))
-      {
-        startUsageStats(desktop);
-      }
-      else
-      {
-        System.err.println("CMD [-nousagestats] executed successfully!");
-      }
 
-      if (!aparser.contains("noquestionnaire"))
+      if (!isJS)
+      /**
+       * Java only
+       * 
+       * @j2sIgnore
+       */
       {
-        String url = aparser.getValue("questionnaire");
-        if (url != null)
+        desktop.startServiceDiscovery();
+        if (!aparser.contains(ArgsParser.NOUSAGESTATS))
         {
-          // Start the desktop questionnaire prompter with the specified
-          // questionnaire
-          Cache.log.debug("Starting questionnaire url at " + url);
-          desktop.checkForQuestionnaire(url);
-          System.out.println("CMD questionnaire[-" + url
-                  + "] executed successfully!");
+          startUsageStats(desktop);
         }
         else
         {
-          if (Cache.getProperty("NOQUESTIONNAIRES") == null)
+          System.err.println("CMD [-nousagestats] executed successfully!");
+        }
+
+        if (!aparser.contains(ArgsParser.NOQUESTIONNAIRE))
+        {
+          String url = aparser.getValue(ArgsParser.QUESTIONNAIRE);
+          if (url != null)
           {
             // Start the desktop questionnaire prompter with the specified
             // questionnaire
-            // String defurl =
-            // "http://anaplog.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/cgi-bin/questionnaire.pl";
-            // //
-            String defurl = "http://www.jalview.org/cgi-bin/questionnaire.pl";
-            Cache.log.debug("Starting questionnaire with default url: "
-                    + defurl);
-            desktop.checkForQuestionnaire(defurl);
-
+            Cache.log.debug("Starting questionnaire url at " + url);
+            desktop.checkForQuestionnaire(url);
+            System.out.println("CMD questionnaire[-" + url
+                    + "] executed successfully!");
+          }
+          else
+          {
+            if (Cache.getProperty(Preferences.NOQUESTIONNAIRES) == null)
+            {
+              // Start the desktop questionnaire prompter with the specified
+              // questionnaire
+              // String defurl =
+              // "http://anaplog.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/cgi-bin/questionnaire.pl";
+              // //
+              String defurl = "http://www.jalview.org/cgi-bin/questionnaire.pl";
+              Cache.log.debug(
+                      "Starting questionnaire with default url: " + defurl);
+              desktop.checkForQuestionnaire(defurl);
+            }
           }
         }
+        else
+        {
+          System.err
+                  .println("CMD [-noquestionnaire] executed successfully!");
+        }
+
+        if (!aparser.contains(ArgsParser.NONEWS))
+        {
+          desktop.checkForNews();
+        }
+
+        BioJsHTMLOutput.updateBioJS();
       }
-      else
-      {
-        System.err
-.println("CMD [-noquestionnaire] executed successfully!");
-      }
-      desktop.checkForNews();
     }
 
-    if (!isHeadlessMode())
+    parseArguments(aparser, true);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Allow an outside entity to initiate the second half of argument parsing
+   * (only).
+   * 
+   * @param args
+   * @return null is good
+   */
+  @Override
+  public Object parseArguments(String[] args)
+  {
+
+    try
+    {
+      ArgsParser aparser = new ArgsParser(args);
+      return parseArguments(aparser, false);
+    } catch (Throwable t)
     {
-      BioJsHTMLOutput.updateBioJS();
+      return t;
     }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * 
+   * @param aparser
+   * @param isStartup
+   * @return
+   */
+  private Object parseArguments(ArgsParser aparser, boolean isStartup)
+  {
+    boolean isJS = Platform.isJS();
 
-    String file = null, protocol = null, format = null, data = null;
-    jalview.io.FileLoader fileLoader = new jalview.io.FileLoader(!headless);
-    Vector getFeatures = null; // vector of das source nicknames to fetch
-    // features from
-    // loading is done.
-    String groovyscript = null; // script to execute after all loading is
+    Desktop desktop = (headless ? null : Desktop.getInstance());
+    // script to execute after all loading is
     // completed one way or another
     // extract groovy argument and execute if necessary
-    groovyscript = aparser.getValue("groovy", true);
-    file = aparser.getValue("open", true);
+    String groovyscript = (isJS ? null
+            : aparser.getValue(ArgsParser.GROOVY, true));
+    String file = aparser.getValue(ArgsParser.OPEN, true);
+    // BH this here to allow split frame; not working as of 5/17/2019
+    String file2 = aparser.getValue(ArgsParser.OPEN2, true);
+    String fileFormat = (isJavaAppletTag
+            ? aparser.getAppletValue("format", null)
+            : null);
+    FileFormatI format = null;
+    DataSourceType protocol = null;
 
     if (file == null && desktop == null)
     {
       System.out.println("No files to open!");
       System.exit(1);
     }
-    String vamsasImport = aparser.getValue("vdoc"), vamsasSession = aparser
-            .getValue("vsess");
-    if (vamsasImport != null || vamsasSession != null)
+    boolean haveImport = checkStartVamas(aparser);
+    // Finally, deal with the remaining input data.
+    long progress = -1;
+    if (file == null && isJavaAppletTag)
     {
-      if (desktop == null || headless)
-      {
-        System.out
-                .println("Headless vamsas sessions not yet supported. Sorry.");
-        System.exit(1);
-      }
-      // if we have a file, start a new session and import it.
-      boolean inSession = false;
-      if (vamsasImport != null)
+      // Maybe the sequences are added as parameters
+      StringBuffer data = new StringBuffer("PASTE");
+      int i = 1;
+      while ((file = aparser.getAppletValue("sequence" + i, null)) != null)
       {
-        try
-        {
-          String viprotocol = jalview.io.AppletFormatAdapter
-                  .checkProtocol(vamsasImport);
-          if (viprotocol == jalview.io.FormatAdapter.FILE)
-          {
-            inSession = desktop.vamsasImport(new File(vamsasImport));
-          }
-          else if (viprotocol == jalview.io.FormatAdapter.URL)
-          {
-            inSession = desktop.vamsasImport(new URL(vamsasImport));
-          }
-
-        } catch (Exception e)
-        {
-          System.err.println("Exeption when importing " + vamsasImport
-                  + " as a vamsas document.");
-          e.printStackTrace();
-        }
-        if (!inSession)
-        {
-          System.err.println("Failed to import " + vamsasImport
-                  + " as a vamsas document.");
-        }
-        else
-        {
-          System.out.println("Imported Successfully into new session "
-                  + desktop.getVamsasApplication().getCurrentSession());
-        }
+        data.append(file.toString() + "\n");
+        i++;
       }
-      if (vamsasSession != null)
+      if (data.length() > 5)
       {
-        if (vamsasImport != null)
-        {
-          // close the newly imported session and import the Jalview specific
-          // remnants into the new session later on.
-          desktop.vamsasStop_actionPerformed(null);
-        }
-        // now join the new session
-        try
-        {
-          if (desktop.joinVamsasSession(vamsasSession))
-          {
-            System.out.println("Successfully joined vamsas session "
-                    + vamsasSession);
-          }
-          else
-          {
-            System.err.println("WARNING: Failed to join vamsas session "
-                    + vamsasSession);
-          }
-        } catch (Exception e)
-        {
-          System.err.println("ERROR: Failed to join vamsas session "
-                  + vamsasSession);
-          e.printStackTrace();
-        }
-        if (vamsasImport != null)
-        {
-          // the Jalview specific remnants can now be imported into the new
-          // session at the user's leisure.
-          Cache.log
-                  .info("Skipping Push for import of data into existing vamsas session."); // TODO:
-          // enable
-          // this
-          // when
-          // debugged
-          // desktop.getVamsasApplication().push_update();
-        }
+        file = data.toString();
       }
     }
-    long progress = -1;
-    // Finally, deal with the remaining input data.
+
+    String data;
+
     if (file != null)
     {
+
       if (!headless)
       {
-        desktop.setProgressBar(MessageManager.getString("status.processing_commandline_args"),
+        desktop.setProgressBar(
+                MessageManager
+                        .getString("status.processing_commandline_args"),
                 progress = System.currentTimeMillis());
       }
-      System.out.println("CMD [-open " + file + "] executed successfully!");
 
-      if (!file.startsWith("http://"))
+      if (!isJS)
+      /**
+       * ignore in JavaScript -- can't just check file existence - could load
+       * it?
+       * 
+       * @j2sIgnore
+       */
       {
-        if (!(new java.io.File(file)).exists())
+        if (!file.startsWith("http://") && !file.startsWith("https://"))
+        // BH 2019 added https check for Java
         {
-          System.out.println("Can't find " + file);
-          if (headless)
+          if (!(new File(file)).exists())
           {
-            System.exit(1);
+            System.out.println("Can't find " + file);
+            if (headless)
+            {
+              System.exit(1);
+            }
           }
         }
       }
 
-      protocol = jalview.io.AppletFormatAdapter.checkProtocol(file);
+      protocol = AppletFormatAdapter.checkProtocol(file);
 
-      format = new jalview.io.IdentifyFile().Identify(file, protocol);
+      try
+      {
+        format = (isJavaAppletTag && fileFormat != null
+                ? FileFormats.getInstance().forName(fileFormat)
+                : null);
+        if (format == null)
+        {
+          format = new IdentifyFile().identify(file, protocol);
+        }
+      } catch (FileFormatException e1)
+      {
+        // TODO ?
+      }
 
-      AlignFrame af = fileLoader.LoadFileWaitTillLoaded(file, protocol,
-              format);
-      if (af == null)
+      if (aparser.contains(ArgsParser.SHOWOVERVIEW))
       {
-        System.out.println("error");
+        jalview.bin.Cache.setPropertyNoSave(Preferences.SHOW_OVERVIEW,
+                "true");
+
+        System.out.println("CMD [showoverview] executed successfully!");
       }
-      else
+
+      if (aparser.contains(ArgsParser.NOMENUBAR))
       {
+        noMenuBar = true;
+        System.out.println("CMD [nomenu] executed successfully!");
+      }
 
-        data = aparser.getValue("colour", true);
-        if (data != null)
-        {
-          data.replaceAll("%20", " ");
+      if (aparser.contains(ArgsParser.NOSTATUS))
+      {
+        noStatus = true;
+        System.out.println("CMD [nostatus] executed successfully!");
+      }
 
-          jalview.schemes.ColourSchemeI cs = jalview.schemes.ColourSchemeProperty
-                  .getColour(af.getViewport().getAlignment(), data);
+      if (aparser.contains(ArgsParser.NOANNOTATION)
+              || aparser.contains(ArgsParser.NOANNOTATION2))
+      {
+        noAnnotation = true;
+        System.out.println("CMD no-annotation executed successfully!");
+      }
+      if (aparser.contains(ArgsParser.NOCALCULATION))
+      {
+        noCalculation = true;
+        System.out.println("CMD [nocalculation] executed successfully!");
+      }
 
-          if (cs == null)
-          {
-            jalview.schemes.UserColourScheme ucs = new jalview.schemes.UserColourScheme(
-                    "white");
-            ucs.parseAppletParameter(data);
-            cs = ucs;
+      AlignFrame af = new FileLoader(!headless).loadFileWaitTillLoaded(file,
+              protocol, format);
+      if (af == null)
+      {
+        System.out.println("error");
+      }
+      else
+      {
+        System.out
+                .println("CMD [-open " + file + "] executed successfully!");
+        if (file2 != null)
+        {
+          protocol = AppletFormatAdapter.checkProtocol(file2);
+          try
+          {
+            format = new IdentifyFile().identify(file2, protocol);
+          } catch (FileFormatException e1)
+          {
+            // TODO ?
+          }
+          AlignFrame af2 = new FileLoader(!headless)
+                  .loadFileWaitTillLoaded(file2, protocol, format);
+          if (af2 == null)
+          {
+            System.out.println("error");
           }
           else
           {
-            System.out.println("CMD [-color " + data
-                    + "] executed successfully!");
+            AlignViewport.openLinkedAlignmentAs(af,
+                    af.getViewport().getAlignment(),
+                    af2.getViewport().getAlignment(), "",
+                    AlignViewport.SPLIT_FRAME);
+            System.out.println(
+                    "CMD [-open2 " + file2 + "] executed successfully!");
+          }
+        }
+
+        setCurrentAlignFrame(af);
+
+        // TODO: file2 How to implement file2 for the applet spit screen?
+
+        data = aparser.getValue(ArgsParser.COLOUR, true);
+        if (data != null)
+        {
+          data.replaceAll("%20", " ");
+
+          ColourSchemeI cs = ColourSchemeProperty.getColourScheme(
+                  af.getViewport(), af.getViewport().getAlignment(), data);
+
+          if (cs != null)
+          {
+            System.out.println(
+                    "CMD [-color " + data + "] executed successfully!");
           }
           af.changeColour(cs);
         }
 
         // Must maintain ability to use the groups flag
-        data = aparser.getValue("groups", true);
+        data = aparser.getValue(ArgsParser.GROUPS, true);
         if (data != null)
         {
           af.parseFeaturesFile(data,
-                  jalview.io.AppletFormatAdapter.checkProtocol(data));
+                  AppletFormatAdapter.checkProtocol(data));
           // System.out.println("Added " + data);
-          System.out.println("CMD groups[-" + data
-                  + "]  executed successfully!");
+          System.out.println(
+                  "CMD groups[-" + data + "]  executed successfully!");
         }
-        data = aparser.getValue("features", true);
+        data = aparser.getValue(ArgsParser.FEATURES, true);
         if (data != null)
         {
           af.parseFeaturesFile(data,
-                  jalview.io.AppletFormatAdapter.checkProtocol(data));
+                  AppletFormatAdapter.checkProtocol(data));
           // System.out.println("Added " + data);
-          System.out.println("CMD [-features " + data
-                  + "]  executed successfully!");
+          System.out.println(
+                  "CMD [-features " + data + "]  executed successfully!");
         }
 
-        data = aparser.getValue("annotations", true);
+        data = aparser.getValue(ArgsParser.ANNOTATIONS, true);
         if (data != null)
         {
           af.loadJalviewDataFile(data, null, null, null);
           // System.out.println("Added " + data);
-          System.out.println("CMD [-annotations " + data
-                  + "] executed successfully!");
+          System.out.println(
+                  "CMD [-annotations " + data + "] executed successfully!");
         }
         // set or clear the sortbytree flag.
-        if (aparser.contains("sortbytree"))
+        if (aparser.contains(ArgsParser.SORTBYTREE))
         {
           af.getViewport().setSortByTree(true);
           if (af.getViewport().getSortByTree())
           {
-            System.out
-.println("CMD [-sortbytree] executed successfully!");
+            System.out.println("CMD [-sortbytree] executed successfully!");
           }
         }
-        if (aparser.contains("no-annotation"))
+
+        boolean doUpdateAnnotation = false;
+
+        /**
+         * we do this earlier in JalviewJS because of a complication with
+         * SHOWOVERVIEW
+         * 
+         * For now, just fixing this in JalviewJS.
+         *
+         * 
+         * @j2sIgnore
+         * 
+         */
         {
-          af.getViewport().setShowAnnotation(false);
-          if (!af.getViewport().isShowAnnotation())
+          if (aparser.contains(ArgsParser.NOANNOTATION)
+                  || aparser.contains(ArgsParser.NOANNOTATION2))
           {
-            System.out
-.println("CMD no-annotation executed successfully!");
+            af.getViewport().setShowAnnotation(false);
+            if (!af.getViewport().isShowAnnotation())
+            {
+              doUpdateAnnotation = true;
+              System.out
+                      .println("CMD no-annotation executed successfully!");
+            }
           }
         }
-        if (aparser.contains("nosortbytree"))
+        if (aparser.contains(ArgsParser.NOSORTBYTREE))
         {
           af.getViewport().setSortByTree(false);
           if (!af.getViewport().getSortByTree())
           {
+            doUpdateAnnotation = true;
             System.out
                     .println("CMD [-nosortbytree] executed successfully!");
           }
         }
-        data = aparser.getValue("tree", true);
+        if (doUpdateAnnotation)
+        { // BH 2019.07.24
+          af.setMenusForViewport();
+          af.alignPanel.updateLayout();
+        }
+        data = aparser.getValue(ArgsParser.TREE, true);
         if (data != null)
         {
-          jalview.io.NewickFile fin = null;
           try
           {
-            System.out.println("CMD [-tree " + data
-                    + "] executed successfully!");
-            fin = new jalview.io.NewickFile(data,
-                    jalview.io.AppletFormatAdapter.checkProtocol(data));
-            if (fin != null)
-            {
-              af.getViewport().setCurrentTree(
-                      af.ShowNewickTree(fin, data).getTree());
-            }
+            System.out.println(
+                    "CMD [-tree " + data + "] executed successfully!");
+            NewickFile nf = new NewickFile(data,
+                    AppletFormatAdapter.checkProtocol(data));
+            af.getViewport()
+                    .setCurrentTree(af.showNewickTree(nf, data).getTree());
           } catch (IOException ex)
           {
             System.err.println("Couldn't add tree " + data);
@@ -491,108 +827,33 @@ public class Jalview
         // TODO - load PDB structure(s) to alignment JAL-629
         // (associate with identical sequence in alignment, or a specified
         // sequence)
-
-        getFeatures = checkDasArguments(aparser);
-        if (af != null && getFeatures != null)
+        if (isJavaAppletTag)
         {
-          FeatureFetcher ff = startFeatureFetching(getFeatures);
-          if (ff != null)
-          {
-            while (!ff.allFinished() || af.operationInProgress())
-            {
-              // wait around until fetching is finished.
-              try
-              {
-                Thread.sleep(100);
-              } catch (Exception e)
-              {
-
-              }
-            }
-          }
-          getFeatures = null; // have retrieved features - forget them now.
+          loadAppletParams(aparser, af);
         }
-        if (groovyscript != null)
+        else if (!isJS)
+        /**
+         * Java only
+         * 
+         * @j2sIgnore
+         */
         {
-          // Execute the groovy script after we've done all the rendering stuff
-          // and before any images or figures are generated.
-          if (jalview.bin.Cache.groovyJarsPresent())
+          if (groovyscript != null)
           {
+            // Execute the groovy script after we've done all the rendering
+            // stuff
+            // and before any images or figures are generated.
             System.out.println("Executing script " + groovyscript);
-            executeGroovyScript(groovyscript, new Object[]
-            { desktop, af });
-
+            executeGroovyScript(groovyscript, af);
             System.out.println("CMD groovy[" + groovyscript
                     + "] executed successfully!");
+            groovyscript = null;
           }
-          else
-          {
-            System.err
-                    .println("Sorry. Groovy Support is not available, so ignoring the provided groovy script "
-                            + groovyscript);
-          }
-          groovyscript = null;
-        }
-        String imageName = "unnamed.png";
-        while (aparser.getSize() > 1)
-        {
-          format = aparser.nextValue();
-          file = aparser.nextValue();
-
-          if (format.equalsIgnoreCase("png"))
-          {
-            af.createPNG(new java.io.File(file));
-            imageName = (new java.io.File(file)).getName();
-            System.out.println("Creating PNG image: " + file);
-            continue;
-          }
-          else if (format.equalsIgnoreCase("svg"))
-          {
-            File imageFile = new java.io.File(file);
-            imageName = imageFile.getName();
-            af.createSVG(imageFile);
-            System.out.println("Creating SVG image: " + file);
-            continue;
-          }
-          else if (format.equalsIgnoreCase("html"))
-          {
-            File imageFile = new java.io.File(file);
-            imageName = imageFile.getName();
-            new HtmlSvgOutput(new java.io.File(file), af.alignPanel);
-            System.out.println("Creating HTML image: " + file);
-            continue;
-          }
-          else if (format.equalsIgnoreCase("imgMap"))
-          {
-            af.createImageMap(new java.io.File(file), imageName);
-            System.out.println("Creating image map: " + file);
-            continue;
-          }
-          else if (format.equalsIgnoreCase("eps"))
-          {
-            File outputFile = new java.io.File(file);
-            System.out.println("Creating EPS file: "
-                    + outputFile.getAbsolutePath());
-            af.createEPS(outputFile);
-            continue;
-          }
-
-          if (af.saveAlignment(file, format))
-          {
-            System.out.println("Written alignment in " + format
-                    + " format to " + file);
-          }
-          else
+          checkOutputFile(aparser, af, format);
+          while (aparser.getSize() > 0)
           {
-            System.out.println("Error writing file " + file + " in "
-                    + format + " format!!");
+            System.out.println("Unknown arg: " + aparser.nextValue());
           }
-
-        }
-
-        while (aparser.getSize() > 0)
-        {
-          System.out.println("Unknown arg: " + aparser.nextValue());
         }
       }
     }
@@ -601,15 +862,20 @@ public class Jalview
     // And the user
     // ////////////////////
 
-    if (!headless && file == null && vamsasImport == null
+    if (!isJS && !headless && file == null && !haveImport
             && jalview.bin.Cache.getDefault("SHOW_STARTUP_FILE", true))
+    /**
+     * Java only
+     * 
+     * @j2sIgnore
+     */
     {
-      file = jalview.bin.Cache.getDefault(
-              "STARTUP_FILE",
+      file = jalview.bin.Cache.getDefault("STARTUP_FILE",
               jalview.bin.Cache.getDefault("www.jalview.org",
                       "http://www.jalview.org")
                       + "/examples/exampleFile_2_7.jar");
-      if (file.equals("http://www.jalview.org/examples/exampleFile_2_3.jar"))
+      if (file.equals(
+              "http://www.jalview.org/examples/exampleFile_2_3.jar"))
       {
         // hardwire upgrade of the startup file
         file.replace("_2_3.jar", "_2_7.jar");
@@ -617,51 +883,45 @@ public class Jalview
         jalview.bin.Cache.removeProperty("STARTUP_FILE");
       }
 
-      protocol = "File";
+      protocol = DataSourceType.FILE;
 
       if (file.indexOf("http:") > -1)
       {
-        protocol = "URL";
+        protocol = DataSourceType.URL;
       }
 
       if (file.endsWith(".jar"))
       {
-        format = "Jalview";
+        format = FileFormat.Jalview;
       }
       else
       {
-        format = new jalview.io.IdentifyFile().Identify(file, protocol);
+        try
+        {
+          format = new IdentifyFile().identify(file, protocol);
+        } catch (FileFormatException e)
+        {
+          // TODO what?
+        }
       }
 
-      startUpAlframe = fileLoader.LoadFileWaitTillLoaded(file, protocol,
-              format);
-      getFeatures = checkDasArguments(aparser);
+      startUpAlframe = new FileLoader(!headless)
+              .loadFileWaitTillLoaded(file, protocol, format);
       // extract groovy arguments before anything else.
     }
-    // If the user has specified features to be retrieved,
-    // or a groovy script to be executed, do them if they
-    // haven't been done already
-    // fetch features for the default alignment
-    if (getFeatures != null)
-    {
-      if (startUpAlframe != null)
-      {
-        startFeatureFetching(getFeatures);
-      }
-    }
+
     // Once all other stuff is done, execute any groovy scripts (in order)
     if (groovyscript != null)
     {
-      if (jalview.bin.Cache.groovyJarsPresent())
+      if (Cache.groovyJarsPresent())
       {
         System.out.println("Executing script " + groovyscript);
-        executeGroovyScript(groovyscript, new Object[]
-        { desktop, startUpAlframe });
+        executeGroovyScript(groovyscript, startUpAlframe);
       }
       else
       {
-        System.err
-                .println("Sorry. Groovy Support is not available, so ignoring the provided groovy script "
+        System.err.println(
+                "Sorry. Groovy Support is not available, so ignoring the provided groovy script "
                         + groovyscript);
       }
     }
@@ -674,12 +934,194 @@ public class Jalview
       }
       desktop.setInBatchMode(false);
     }
+
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  private boolean checkStartVamas(ArgsParser aparser)
+  {
+    String vamsasImport = aparser.getValue(ArgsParser.VDOC);
+    String vamsasSession = aparser.getValue(ArgsParser.VSESS);
+    if (vamsasImport == null && vamsasSession == null)
+    {
+      return false;
+    }
+    if (desktop == null || headless)
+    {
+      System.out.println(
+              "Headless vamsas sessions not yet supported. Sorry.");
+      System.exit(1);
+    }
+    boolean haveImport = (vamsasImport != null);
+    if (haveImport)
+    {
+      // if we have a file, start a new session and import it.
+      boolean inSession = false;
+      try
+      {
+        DataSourceType viprotocol = AppletFormatAdapter
+                .checkProtocol(vamsasImport);
+        if (viprotocol == DataSourceType.FILE)
+        {
+          inSession = desktop.vamsasImport(new File(vamsasImport));
+        }
+        else if (viprotocol == DataSourceType.URL)
+        {
+          inSession = desktop.vamsasImport(new URL(vamsasImport));
+        }
+
+      } catch (Exception e)
+      {
+        System.err.println("Exeption when importing " + vamsasImport
+                + " as a vamsas document.");
+        e.printStackTrace();
+      }
+      if (!inSession)
+      {
+        System.err.println("Failed to import " + vamsasImport
+                + " as a vamsas document.");
+      }
+      else
+      {
+        System.out.println("Imported Successfully into new session "
+                + desktop.getVamsasApplication().getCurrentSession());
+      }
+    }
+    if (vamsasSession != null)
+    {
+      if (vamsasImport != null)
+      {
+        // close the newly imported session and import the Jalview specific
+        // remnants into the new session later on.
+        desktop.vamsasStop_actionPerformed(null);
+      }
+      // now join the new session
+      try
+      {
+        if (desktop.joinVamsasSession(vamsasSession))
+        {
+          System.out.println(
+                  "Successfully joined vamsas session " + vamsasSession);
+        }
+        else
+        {
+          System.err.println("WARNING: Failed to join vamsas session "
+                  + vamsasSession);
+        }
+      } catch (Exception e)
+      {
+        System.err.println(
+                "ERROR: Failed to join vamsas session " + vamsasSession);
+        e.printStackTrace();
+      }
+      if (vamsasImport != null)
+      {
+        // the Jalview specific remnants can now be imported into the new
+        // session at the user's leisure.
+        Cache.log.info(
+                "Skipping Push for import of data into existing vamsas session.");
+        // TODO:
+        // enable
+        // this
+        // when
+        // debugged
+        // desktop.getVamsasApplication().push_update();
+      }
+    }
+    return haveImport;
+  }
+
+  private void checkOutputFile(ArgsParser aparser, AlignFrame af,
+          FileFormatI format)
+  {
+    String imageName = "unnamed.png";
+    while (aparser.getSize() > 1)
+    {
+      // PNG filename
+      // SVG filename
+      // HTML filename
+      // biojsmsa filename
+      String outputFormat = aparser.nextValue();
+      String file = aparser.nextValue();
+      if (outputFormat.equalsIgnoreCase("png"))
+      {
+        af.createPNG(new File(file));
+        imageName = (new File(file)).getName();
+        System.out.println("Creating PNG image: " + file);
+        continue;
+      }
+      else if (outputFormat.equalsIgnoreCase("svg"))
+      {
+        File imageFile = new File(file);
+        imageName = imageFile.getName();
+        af.createSVG(imageFile);
+        System.out.println("Creating SVG image: " + file);
+        continue;
+      }
+      else if (outputFormat.equalsIgnoreCase("html"))
+      {
+        File imageFile = new File(file);
+        imageName = imageFile.getName();
+        HtmlSvgOutput htmlSVG = new HtmlSvgOutput(af.alignPanel);
+        htmlSVG.exportHTML(file);
+
+        System.out.println("Creating HTML image: " + file);
+        continue;
+      }
+      else if (outputFormat.equalsIgnoreCase("biojsmsa"))
+      {
+        if (file == null)
+        {
+          System.err.println("The output html file must not be null");
+          return;
+        }
+        try
+        {
+          BioJsHTMLOutput.refreshVersionInfo(
+                  BioJsHTMLOutput.BJS_TEMPLATES_LOCAL_DIRECTORY);
+        } catch (URISyntaxException e)
+        {
+          e.printStackTrace();
+        }
+        BioJsHTMLOutput bjs = new BioJsHTMLOutput(af.alignPanel);
+        bjs.exportHTML(file);
+        System.out.println("Creating BioJS MSA Viwer HTML file: " + file);
+        continue;
+      }
+      else if (outputFormat.equalsIgnoreCase("imgMap"))
+      {
+        af.createImageMap(new File(file), imageName);
+        System.out.println("Creating image map: " + file);
+        continue;
+      }
+      else if (outputFormat.equalsIgnoreCase("eps"))
+      {
+        File outputFile = new File(file);
+        System.out.println(
+                "Creating EPS file: " + outputFile.getAbsolutePath());
+        af.createEPS(outputFile);
+        continue;
+      }
+
+      af.saveAlignment(file, format);
+      if (af.isSaveAlignmentSuccessful())
+      {
+        System.out.println(
+                "Written alignment in " + format + " format to " + file);
+      }
+      else
+      {
+        System.out.println("Error writing file " + file + " in " + format
+                + " format!!");
+      }
+
+    }
   }
 
   private static void showUsage()
   {
-    System.out
-            .println("Usage: jalview -open [FILE] [OUTPUT_FORMAT] [OUTPUT_FILE]\n\n"
+    System.out.println(
+            "Usage: jalview -open [FILE] [OUTPUT_FORMAT] [OUTPUT_FILE]\n\n"
                     + "-nodisplay\tRun Jalview without User Interface.\n"
                     + "-props FILE\tUse the given Jalview properties file instead of users default.\n"
                     + "-colour COLOURSCHEME\tThe colourscheme to be applied to the alignment\n"
@@ -693,25 +1135,29 @@ public class Jalview
                     + "-pileup FILE\tCreate alignment file FILE in Pileup format\n"
                     + "-pir FILE\tCreate alignment file FILE in PIR format.\n"
                     + "-blc FILE\tCreate alignment file FILE in BLC format.\n"
+                    + "-json FILE\tCreate alignment file FILE in JSON format.\n"
                     + "-jalview FILE\tCreate alignment file FILE in Jalview format.\n"
                     + "-png FILE\tCreate PNG image FILE from alignment.\n"
                     + "-svg FILE\tCreate SVG image FILE from alignment.\n"
                     + "-html FILE\tCreate HTML file from alignment.\n"
+                    + "-biojsMSA FILE\tCreate BioJS MSA Viewer HTML file from alignment.\n"
                     + "-imgMap FILE\tCreate HTML file FILE with image map of PNG image.\n"
                     + "-eps FILE\tCreate EPS file FILE from alignment.\n"
                     + "-questionnaire URL\tQueries the given URL for information about any Jalview user questionnaires.\n"
                     + "-noquestionnaire\tTurn off questionnaire check.\n"
+                    + "-nonews\tTurn off check for Jalview news.\n"
                     + "-nousagestats\tTurn off google analytics tracking for this session.\n"
                     + "-sortbytree OR -nosortbytree\tEnable or disable sorting of the given alignment by the given tree\n"
                     // +
-                    // "-setprop PROPERTY=VALUE\tSet the given Jalview property, after all other properties files have been read\n\t (quote the 'PROPERTY=VALUE' pair to ensure spaces are passed in correctly)"
+                    // "-setprop PROPERTY=VALUE\tSet the given Jalview property,
+                    // after all other properties files have been read\n\t
+                    // (quote the 'PROPERTY=VALUE' pair to ensure spaces are
+                    // passed in correctly)"
                     + "-jabaws URL\tSpecify URL for Jabaws services (e.g. for a local installation).\n"
-                    + "-dasserver nickname=URL\tAdd and enable a das server with given nickname\n\t\t\t(alphanumeric or underscores only) for retrieval of features for all alignments.\n"
-                    + "\t\t\tSources that also support the sequence command may be specified by prepending the URL with sequence:\n"
-                    + "\t\t\t e.g. sequence:http://localdas.somewhere.org/das/source)\n"
                     + "-fetchfrom nickname\tQuery nickname for features for the alignments and display them.\n"
                     // +
-                    // "-vdoc vamsas-document\tImport vamsas document into new session or join existing session with same URN\n"
+                    // "-vdoc vamsas-document\tImport vamsas document into new
+                    // session or join existing session with same URN\n"
                     // + "-vses vamsas-session\tJoin session with given URN\n"
                     + "-groovy FILE\tExecute groovy script in FILE, after all other arguments have been processed (if FILE is the text 'STDIN' then the file will be read from STDIN)\n"
                     + "\n~Read documentation in Application or visit http://www.jalview.org for description of Features and Annotations file~\n\n");
@@ -722,24 +1168,25 @@ public class Jalview
     /**
      * start a User Config prompt asking if we can log usage statistics.
      */
-    jalview.gui.PromptUserConfig prompter = new jalview.gui.PromptUserConfig(
-            desktop.desktop,
-            "USAGESTATS",
+    PromptUserConfig prompter = new PromptUserConfig(
+            Desktop.getDesktopPane(), "USAGESTATS",
             "Jalview Usage Statistics",
             "Do you want to help make Jalview better by enabling "
                     + "the collection of usage statistics with Google Analytics ?"
                     + "\n\n(you can enable or disable usage tracking in the preferences)",
             new Runnable()
             {
+              @Override
               public void run()
               {
-                Cache.log
-                        .debug("Initialising googletracker for usage stats.");
+                Cache.log.debug(
+                        "Initialising googletracker for usage stats.");
                 Cache.initGoogleTracker();
                 Cache.log.debug("Tracking enabled.");
               }
             }, new Runnable()
             {
+              @Override
               public void run()
               {
                 Cache.log.debug("Not enabling Google Tracking.");
@@ -757,14 +1204,8 @@ public class Jalview
    *          the Jalview Desktop object passed in to the groovy binding as the
    *          'Jalview' object.
    */
-  private static void executeGroovyScript(String groovyscript,
-          Object[] jalviewContext)
+  private void executeGroovyScript(String groovyscript, AlignFrame af)
   {
-    if (jalviewContext == null)
-    {
-      System.err
-              .println("Sorry. Groovy support is currently only available when running with the Jalview GUI enabled.");
-    }
     /**
      * for scripts contained in files
      */
@@ -779,10 +1220,10 @@ public class Jalview
       try
       {
         tfile = File.createTempFile("jalview", "groovy");
-        PrintWriter outfile = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(
-                new FileOutputStream(tfile)));
+        PrintWriter outfile = new PrintWriter(
+                new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(tfile)));
         BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
-                new java.io.InputStreamReader(System.in));
+                new InputStreamReader(System.in));
         String line = null;
         while ((line = br.readLine()) != null)
         {
@@ -795,8 +1236,8 @@ public class Jalview
       } catch (Exception ex)
       {
         System.err.println("Failed to read from STDIN into tempfile "
-                + ((tfile == null) ? "(tempfile wasn't created)" : tfile
-                        .toString()));
+                + ((tfile == null) ? "(tempfile wasn't created)"
+                        : tfile.toString()));
         ex.printStackTrace();
         return;
       }
@@ -805,8 +1246,8 @@ public class Jalview
         sfile = tfile.toURI().toURL();
       } catch (Exception x)
       {
-        System.err
-                .println("Unexpected Malformed URL Exception for temporary file created from STDIN: "
+        System.err.println(
+                "Unexpected Malformed URL Exception for temporary file created from STDIN: "
                         + tfile.toURI());
         x.printStackTrace();
         return;
@@ -846,76 +1287,23 @@ public class Jalview
         }
       }
     }
-    boolean success = false;
     try
     {
-      /*
-       * The following code performs the GroovyScriptEngine invocation using
-       * reflection, and is equivalent to this fragment from the embedding
-       * groovy documentation on the groovy site: <code> import
-       * groovy.lang.Binding; import groovy.util.GroovyScriptEngine;
-       * 
-       * String[] roots = new String[] { "/my/groovy/script/path" };
-       * GroovyScriptEngine gse = new GroovyScriptEngine(roots); Binding binding
-       * = new Binding(); binding.setVariable("input", "world");
-       * gse.run("hello.groovy", binding); </code>
-       */
-      Class<?>[] bspec;
-      Object[] binding;
-      int blen = ((jalviewContext[0] == null) ? 0 : 1)
-              + ((jalviewContext[1] == null) ? 0 : 1);
-      String cnames[] = new String[]
-      { "Jalview", "currentAlFrame" };
-      bspec = new Class[blen * 2];
-      binding = new Object[blen * 2];
-      blen = 0;
-      ClassLoader cl = null;
-      Map<String, Object> vbinding = new HashMap<String, Object>();
-      for (int jc = 0; jc < jalviewContext.length; jc++)
-      {
-        if (jalviewContext[jc] != null)
-        {
-          if (cl == null)
-          {
-            cl = jalviewContext[jc].getClass().getClassLoader();
-          }
-          bspec[blen * 2] = String.class;
-          bspec[blen * 2 + 1] = Object.class;
-          binding[blen * 2] = cnames[jc];
-          binding[blen * 2 + 1] = jalviewContext[jc];
-          vbinding.put(cnames[jc], jalviewContext[jc]);
-          blen++;
-        }
+      Map<String, Object> vbinding = new HashMap<>();
+      vbinding.put("Jalview", this);
+      if (af != null)
+      {
+        vbinding.put("currentAlFrame", af);
       }
-      Class<?> gbindingc = cl.loadClass("groovy.lang.Binding");
-      Constructor<?> gbcons;
-      Object gbinding;
-      try
+      Binding gbinding = new Binding(vbinding);
+      GroovyScriptEngine gse = new GroovyScriptEngine(new URL[] { sfile });
+      gse.run(sfile.toString(), gbinding);
+      if ("STDIN".equals(groovyscript))
       {
-        gbcons = gbindingc.getConstructor(Map.class);
-        gbinding = gbcons.newInstance(vbinding);
-      } catch (NoSuchMethodException x)
-      {
-        // old style binding config - using series of string/object values to
-        // setVariable.
-        gbcons = gbindingc.getConstructor();
-        gbinding = gbcons.newInstance();
-        java.lang.reflect.Method setvar = gbindingc.getMethod(
-                "setVariable", bspec);
-        setvar.invoke(gbinding, binding);
-      }
-
-      Class<?> gsec = cl.loadClass("groovy.util.GroovyScriptEngine");
-      Constructor<?> gseccons = gsec.getConstructor(new Class[]
-      { URL[].class }); // String[].class });
-      Object gse = gseccons.newInstance(new Object[]
-      { new URL[]
-      { sfile } }); // .toString() } });
-      java.lang.reflect.Method run = gsec.getMethod("run", new Class[]
-      { String.class, gbindingc });
-      run.invoke(gse, new Object[]
-      { sfile.toString(), gbinding });
-      success = true;
+        // delete temp file that we made -
+        // only if it was successfully executed
+        tfile.delete();
+      }
     } catch (Exception e)
     {
       System.err.println("Exception Whilst trying to execute file " + sfile
@@ -923,278 +1311,744 @@ public class Jalview
       e.printStackTrace(System.err);
 
     }
-    if (success && groovyscript.equals("STDIN"))
+  }
+
+  public AlignFrame[] getAlignFrames()
+  {
+    return desktop == null ? new AlignFrame[] { getCurrentAlignFrame() }
+            : Desktop.getAlignFrames();
+
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Quit method delegates to Desktop.quit - unless running in headless mode
+   * when it just ends the JVM
+   */
+  public void quit()
+  {
+    if (jsFunctionExec != null)
+    {
+      jsFunctionExec.tidyUp();
+      jsFunctionExec = null;
+    }
+
+    if (desktop != null)
+    {
+      desktop.quit();
+    }
+    else
     {
-      // delete temp file that we made - but only if it was successfully
-      // executed
-      tfile.delete();
+      System.exit(0);
     }
   }
 
   /**
-   * Check commandline for any das server definitions or any fetchfrom switches
+   * Get the SwingJS applet ID and combine that with the frameType
    * 
-   * @return vector of DAS source nicknames to retrieve from
+   * @param frameType
+   *          "alignment", "desktop", etc., or null
+   * @return
    */
-  private static Vector checkDasArguments(ArgsParser aparser)
+  public static String getAppID(String frameType)
   {
-    Vector source = null;
-    String data;
-    String locsources = Cache.getProperty(Cache.DAS_LOCAL_SOURCE);
-    while ((data = aparser.getValue("dasserver", true)) != null)
+    String id = Cache.getProperty("Info.j2sAppletID");
+    if (id == null)
+    {
+      id = "jalview";
+    }
+    return id + (frameType == null ? "" : "-" + frameType);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Handle all JalviewLite applet parameters
+   * 
+   * @param aparser
+   * @param af
+   */
+  private void loadAppletParams(ArgsParser aparser, AlignFrame af)
+  {
+    JalviewApp app = new JalviewApp()
     {
-      String nickname = null;
-      String url = null;
-      boolean seq = false, feat = true;
-      int pos = data.indexOf('=');
-      // determine capabilities
-      if (pos > 0)
+
+      // TODO BH 2019
+      //
+      // These are methods that are in JalviewLite that various classes call
+      // but are not in JalviewLiteJsApi. Or, even if they are, other classes
+      // call
+      // them to JalviewLite directly. Some may not be necessary, but they have
+      // to
+      // be at least mentioned here, or the classes calling them should
+      // reference
+      // JalviewLite itself.
+
+      private boolean alignPDBStructures; // From JalviewLite; not implemented
+
+      private Hashtable<String, Hashtable<String, String[]>> jsmessages;
+
+      private Hashtable<String, int[]> jshashes;
+
+      @Override
+      public String getParameter(String name)
       {
-        nickname = data.substring(0, pos);
+        return aparser.getAppletValue(name, null);
       }
-      url = data.substring(pos + 1);
-      if (url != null
-              && (url.startsWith("http:") || url
-                      .startsWith("sequence:http:")))
+
+      @Override
+      public boolean getDefaultParameter(String name, boolean def)
       {
-        if (nickname == null)
-        {
-          nickname = url;
-        }
-        if (locsources == null)
-        {
-          locsources = "";
-        }
-        else
-        {
-          locsources += "\t";
-        }
-        locsources = locsources + nickname + "|" + url;
-        System.err
-                .println("NOTE! dasserver parameter not yet really supported (got args of "
-                        + nickname + "|" + url);
-        if (source == null)
+        String stn;
+        return ((stn = getParameter(name)) == null ? def
+                : "true".equalsIgnoreCase(stn));
+      }
+
+      /**
+       * Get the applet-like document base even though this is an application.
+       */
+      @Override
+      public URL getDocumentBase()
+      {
+        return Platform.getDocumentBase();
+      }
+
+      /**
+       * Get the applet-like code base even though this is an application.
+       */
+      @Override
+      public URL getCodeBase()
+      {
+        return Platform.getCodeBase();
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public AlignViewportI getViewport()
+      {
+        return af.getViewport();
+      }
+
+      /**
+       * features
+       * 
+       */
+      @Override
+      public boolean parseFeaturesFile(String filename,
+              DataSourceType protocol)
+      {
+        return af.parseFeaturesFile(filename, protocol);
+      }
+
+      /**
+       * scorefile
+       * 
+       */
+      @Override
+      public boolean loadScoreFile(String sScoreFile) throws IOException
+      {
+        af.loadJalviewDataFile(sScoreFile, null, null, null);
+        return true;
+      }
+
+      /**
+       * annotations, jpredfile, jnetfile
+       * 
+       */
+      @Override
+      public void updateForAnnotations()
+      {
+        af.updateForAnnotations();
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public void loadTree(NewickFile fin, String treeFile)
+              throws IOException
+      {
+        // n/a -- already done by standard Jalview command line processing
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public void setAlignPdbStructures(boolean defaultParameter)
+      {
+        alignPDBStructures = true;
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public void newStructureView(PDBEntry pdb, SequenceI[] seqs,
+              String[] chains, DataSourceType protocol)
+      {
+        StructureViewer.launchStructureViewer(af.alignPanel, pdb, seqs);
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public void setFeatureGroupState(String[] groups, boolean state)
+      {
+        af.setFeatureGroupState(groups, state);
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public void alignedStructureView(PDBEntry[] pdb, SequenceI[][] seqs,
+              String[][] chains, String[] protocols)
+      {
+        System.err.println(
+                "Jalview applet interface alignedStructureView not implemented");
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public void newFeatureSettings()
+      {
+        System.err.println(
+                "Jalview applet interface newFeatureSettings not implemented");
+      }
+
+      private Vector<Runnable> jsExecQueue;
+
+      @Override
+      public Vector<Runnable> getJsExecQueue(JSFunctionExec exec)
+      {
+        jsFunctionExec = exec;
+        return (jsExecQueue == null ? (jsExecQueue = new Vector<>())
+                : jsExecQueue);
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public AppletContext getAppletContext()
+      {
+        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+        return null;
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public boolean isJsfallbackEnabled()
+      {
+        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+        return false;
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public JSObject getJSObject()
+      {
+        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+        return null;
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public StructureSelectionManagerProvider getStructureSelectionManagerProvider()
+      {
+        // TODO Q: what exactly is this? BH
+        return null;
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public void updateColoursFromMouseOver(Object source,
+              MouseOverStructureListener mouseOverStructureListener)
+      {
+        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public Object[] getSelectionForListener(SequenceGroup seqsel,
+              ColumnSelection colsel, HiddenColumns hidden,
+              SelectionSource source, Object alignFrame)
+      {
+        return appLoader.getSelectionForListener(getCurrentAlignFrame(),
+                seqsel, colsel, hidden, source, alignFrame);
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public String arrayToSeparatorList(String[] array)
+      {
+        return appLoader.arrayToSeparatorList(array);
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public Hashtable<String, int[]> getJSHashes()
+      {
+        return (jshashes == null ? (jshashes = new Hashtable<>())
+                : jshashes);
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public Hashtable<String, Hashtable<String, String[]>> getJSMessages()
+      {
+        return (jsmessages == null ? (jsmessages = new Hashtable<>())
+                : jsmessages);
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public Object getFrameForSource(VamsasSource source)
+      {
+        if (source != null)
         {
-          source = new Vector();
+          AlignFrame af;
+          if (source instanceof jalview.gui.AlignViewport
+                  && source == (af = getCurrentAlignFrame()).getViewport())
+          {
+            // should be valid if it just generated an event!
+            return af;
+          }
+          // TODO: ensure that if '_af' is specified along with a handler
+          // function, then only events from that alignFrame are sent to that
+          // function
         }
-        source.addElement(nickname);
+        return null;
       }
-      System.out.println("CMD [-dasserver " + data
-              + "] executed successfully!");
-    } // loop until no more server entries are found.
-    if (locsources != null && locsources.indexOf('|') > -1)
-    {
-      Cache.log.debug("Setting local source list in properties file to:\n"
-              + locsources);
-      Cache.setProperty(Cache.DAS_LOCAL_SOURCE, locsources);
-    }
-    while ((data = aparser.getValue("fetchfrom", true)) != null)
-    {
-      System.out.println("adding source '" + data + "'");
-      if (source == null)
+
+      @Override
+      public FeatureRenderer getNewFeatureRenderer(AlignViewportI vp)
       {
-        source = new Vector();
+        return new jalview.gui.FeatureRenderer((AlignmentPanel) vp);
       }
-      source.addElement(data);
-    }
-    return source;
+
+    };
+
+    appLoader = new JalviewAppLoader(true);
+    appLoader.load(app);
   }
 
   /**
-   * start a feature fetcher for every alignment frame
    * 
-   * @param dasSources
+   * @see jalview.bin.JalviewLiteJsApi#getSelectedSequences()
    */
-  private static FeatureFetcher startFeatureFetching(final Vector dasSources)
+  @Override
+  public String getSelectedSequences()
   {
-    FeatureFetcher ff = new FeatureFetcher();
-    AlignFrame afs[] = Desktop.getAlignFrames();
-    if (afs == null || afs.length == 0)
-    {
-      return null;
-    }
-    for (int i = 0; i < afs.length; i++)
-    {
-      ff.addFetcher(afs[i], dasSources);
-    }
-    return ff;
+    return getSelectedSequencesFrom(getCurrentAlignFrame());
   }
 
-  public static boolean isHeadlessMode()
+  /**
+   * 
+   * @see jalview.bin.JalviewLiteJsApi#getSelectedSequences(java.lang.String)
+   */
+  @Override
+  public String getSelectedSequences(String sep)
   {
-    String isheadless = System.getProperty("java.awt.headless");
-    if (isheadless != null && isheadless.equalsIgnoreCase("true"))
-    {
-      return true;
-    }
-    return false;
+    return getSelectedSequencesFrom(getCurrentAlignFrame(), sep);
   }
-}
 
-/**
- * Notes: this argParser does not distinguish between parameter switches,
- * parameter values and argument text. If an argument happens to be identical to
- * a parameter, it will be taken as such (even though it didn't have a '-'
- * prefixing it).
- * 
- * @author Andrew Waterhouse and JBP documented.
- * 
- */
+  /**
+   * 
+   * @see jalview.bin.JalviewLiteJsApi#getSelectedSequencesFrom(jalview.appletgui
+   *      .AlignFrame)
+   */
+  @Override
+  public String getSelectedSequencesFrom(AlignFrameI alf)
+  {
+    return getSelectedSequencesFrom(alf, null);
+  }
 
-class rnabuttonlistener implements ActionListener
-{
-  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0)
+  /**
+   * 
+   * @see jalview.bin.JalviewLiteJsApi#getSelectedSequencesFrom(jalview.appletgui
+   *      .AlignFrame, java.lang.String)
+   */
+  @Override
+  public String getSelectedSequencesFrom(AlignFrameI alf, String sep)
   {
-    System.out.println("Good idea ! ");
+    return appLoader.getSelectedSequencesFrom(alf, sep);
+  }
 
+  /**
+   * 
+   * @see jalview.bin.JalviewLiteJsApi#getSelectedSequencesFrom(jalview.appletgui
+   *      .AlignFrame, java.lang.String)
+   */
+  @Override
+  public void highlight(String sequenceId, String position,
+          String alignedPosition)
+  {
+    highlightIn(getCurrentAlignFrame(), sequenceId, position,
+            alignedPosition);
   }
-}
 
-class pbuttonlistener implements ActionListener
-{
-  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0)
+  @Override
+  public void highlightIn(AlignFrameI alf, String sequenceId,
+          String position, String alignedPosition)
   {
+    appLoader.highlightIn(alf, sequenceId, position, alignedPosition);
+  }
 
+  @Override
+  public void select(String sequenceIds, String columns)
+  {
+    selectIn(getCurrentAlignFrame(), sequenceIds, columns, null);
   }
-}
 
-class ArgsParser
-{
-  Vector vargs = null;
+  @Override
+  public void select(String sequenceIds, String columns, String sep)
+  {
+    selectIn(getCurrentAlignFrame(), sequenceIds, columns, sep);
+  }
 
-  public ArgsParser(String[] args)
+  @Override
+  public void selectIn(AlignFrameI alf, String sequenceIds, String columns)
   {
-    vargs = new Vector();
-    for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++)
-    {
-      String arg = args[i].trim();
-      if (arg.charAt(0) == '-')
-      {
-        arg = arg.substring(1);
-      }
-      vargs.addElement(arg);
-    }
+    selectIn(alf, sequenceIds, columns, null);
   }
 
-  /**
-   * check for and remove first occurence of arg+parameter in arglist.
-   * 
-   * @param arg
-   * @return return the argument following the given arg if arg was in list.
-   */
-  public String getValue(String arg)
+  @Override
+  public void selectIn(AlignFrameI alf, String sequenceIds, String columns,
+          String sep)
   {
-    return getValue(arg, false);
+    appLoader.selectIn(alf, sequenceIds, columns, sep);
   }
 
-  public String getValue(String arg, boolean utf8decode)
+  @Override
+  public String getSelectedSequencesAsAlignment(String format,
+          String suffix)
   {
-    int index = vargs.indexOf(arg);
-    String dc = null, ret = null;
-    if (index != -1)
-    {
-      ret = vargs.elementAt(index + 1).toString();
-      vargs.removeElementAt(index);
-      vargs.removeElementAt(index);
-      if (utf8decode && ret != null)
-      {
-        try
-        {
-          dc = URLDecoder.decode(ret, "UTF-8");
-          ret = dc;
-        } catch (Exception e)
-        {
-          // TODO: log failure to decode
-        }
-      }
-    }
-    return ret;
+    return getSelectedSequencesAsAlignmentFrom(getCurrentAlignFrame(),
+            format, suffix);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String getSelectedSequencesAsAlignmentFrom(AlignFrameI alf,
+          String format, String sep)
+  {
+    return appLoader.getSelectedSequencesAsAlignmentFrom(alf, format, sep);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String getAlignmentOrder()
+  {
+    return getAlignmentFrom(getCurrentAlignFrame(), null);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String getAlignmentOrderFrom(AlignFrameI alf)
+  {
+    return getAlignmentFrom(alf, null);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String getAlignmentOrderFrom(AlignFrameI alf, String sep)
+  {
+    return appLoader.getAlignmentOrderFrom(alf, sep);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String orderBy(String order, String undoName)
+  {
+    return orderBy(order, undoName, null);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String orderBy(String order, String undoName, String sep)
+  {
+    return orderAlignmentBy(getCurrentAlignFrame(), order, undoName, sep);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String orderAlignmentBy(AlignFrameI alf, String order,
+          String undoName, String sep)
+  {
+    return appLoader.orderAlignmentBy(alf, order, undoName, sep);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String getAlignment(String format)
+  {
+    return getAlignmentFrom(null, format, null);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String getAlignmentFrom(AlignFrameI alf, String format)
+  {
+    return getAlignmentFrom(alf, format, null);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String getAlignment(String format, String suffix)
+  {
+    return getAlignmentFrom(getCurrentAlignFrame(), format, suffix);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String getAlignmentFrom(AlignFrameI alf, String format,
+          String suffix)
+  {
+    return appLoader.getAlignmentFrom(alf, format, suffix);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void loadAnnotation(String annotation)
+  {
+    loadAnnotationFrom(getCurrentAlignFrame(), annotation);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void loadAnnotationFrom(AlignFrameI alf, String annotation)
+  {
+    appLoader.loadAnnotationFrom(alf, annotation);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void loadFeatures(String features, boolean autoenabledisplay)
+  {
+    loadFeaturesFrom(currentAlignFrame, features, autoenabledisplay);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public boolean loadFeaturesFrom(AlignFrameI alf, String features,
+          boolean autoenabledisplay)
+  {
+    return appLoader.loadFeaturesFrom(alf, features, autoenabledisplay);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String getFeatures(String format)
+  {
+    return getFeaturesFrom(getCurrentAlignFrame(), format);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String getFeaturesFrom(AlignFrameI alf, String format)
+  {
+    return appLoader.getFeaturesFrom(alf, format);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String getAnnotation()
+  {
+    return getAnnotationFrom(getCurrentAlignFrame());
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String getAnnotationFrom(AlignFrameI alf)
+  {
+    return appLoader.getAnnotationFrom(alf);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public AlignFrameI newView()
+  {
+    return newViewFrom(getCurrentAlignFrame(), null);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public AlignFrameI newView(String name)
+  {
+    return newViewFrom(getCurrentAlignFrame(), name);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public AlignFrameI newViewFrom(AlignFrameI alf)
+  {
+    return newViewFrom(alf, null);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public AlignFrameI newViewFrom(AlignFrameI alf, String name)
+  {
+    return appLoader.newViewFrom(alf, name);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public AlignFrameI loadAlignment(String text, String title)
+  {
+    return appLoader.loadAlignment(text, AlignFrame.DEFAULT_WIDTH,
+            AlignFrame.DEFAULT_HEIGHT, title);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public boolean addPdbFile(AlignFrameI alFrame, String sequenceId,
+          String pdbEntryString, String pdbFile)
+  {
+    return appLoader.addPdbFile(alFrame, sequenceId, pdbEntryString,
+            pdbFile);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void scrollViewToIn(AlignFrameI alf, String topRow,
+          String leftHandColumn)
+  {
+    appLoader.scrollViewToIn(alf, topRow, leftHandColumn);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void scrollViewToRowIn(AlignFrameI alf, String topRow)
+  {
+    appLoader.scrollViewToRowIn(alf, topRow);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void scrollViewToColumnIn(AlignFrameI alf, String leftHandColumn)
+  {
+    appLoader.scrollViewToColumnIn(alf, leftHandColumn);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String getFeatureGroups()
+  {
+    return getFeatureGroupsOn(getCurrentAlignFrame());
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String getFeatureGroupsOn(AlignFrameI alf)
+  {
+    return appLoader.getFeatureGroupsOn(alf);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String getFeatureGroupsOfState(boolean visible)
+  {
+    return getFeatureGroupsOfStateOn(getCurrentAlignFrame(), visible);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String getFeatureGroupsOfStateOn(AlignFrameI alf, boolean visible)
+  {
+    return appLoader.getFeatureGroupsOfStateOn(alf, visible);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void setFeatureGroupStateOn(AlignFrameI alf, String groups,
+          boolean state)
+  {
+    setFeatureGroupStateOn(alf, groups, state);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void setFeatureGroupState(String groups, boolean state)
+  {
+    appLoader.setFeatureGroupStateOn(getCurrentAlignFrame(), groups, state);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String getSeparator()
+  {
+    return appLoader.getSeparator();
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void setSeparator(String separator)
+  {
+    appLoader.setSeparator(separator);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String getJsMessage(String messageclass, String viewId)
+  {
+    // see http://www.jalview.org/examples/jalviewLiteJs.html
+    return null;
   }
 
   /**
-   * check for and remove first occurence of arg in arglist.
+   * Open a new Tree panel on the desktop statically. Params are standard (not
+   * set by Groovy). No dialog is opened.
    * 
-   * @param arg
-   * @return true if arg was present in argslist.
+   * @param af
+   * @param treeType
+   * @param modelName
+   * @return null, or the string "label.you_need_at_least_n_sequences" if number
+   *         of sequences selected is inappropriate
    */
-  public boolean contains(String arg)
+  @Override
+  public Object openTreePanel(AlignFrame af, String treeType,
+          String modelName)
   {
-    if (vargs.contains(arg))
-    {
-      vargs.removeElement(arg);
-      return true;
-    }
-    else
-    {
-      return false;
-    }
+    return CalculationChooser.openTreePanel(af, treeType, modelName, null);
   }
 
-  public String nextValue()
+  /**
+   * public static method for JalviewJS API to open a PCAPanel without
+   * necessarily using a dialog.
+   * 
+   * @param af
+   * @param modelName
+   * @return the PCAPanel, or the string "label.you_need_at_least_n_sequences"
+   *         if number of sequences selected is inappropriate
+   */
+  @Override
+  public Object openPcaPanel(AlignFrame af, String modelName)
   {
-    return vargs.remove(0).toString();
+    return CalculationChooser.openPcaPanel(af, modelName, null);
   }
 
-  public int getSize()
+  @Override
+  public String getSelectedSequencesAsAlignment(String format,
+          boolean suffix)
   {
-    return vargs.size();
+    return getSelectedSequencesAsAlignmentFrom(getCurrentAlignFrame(),
+            format, suffix);
   }
 
-}
+  @Override
+  public String getSelectedSequencesAsAlignmentFrom(AlignFrameI alf,
+          String format, boolean suffix)
+  {
+    return appLoader.getSelectedSequencesAsAlignmentFrom(alf, format,
+            "" + suffix);
+  }
 
-/**
- * keep track of feature fetching tasks.
- * 
- * @author JimP
- * 
- */
-class FeatureFetcher
-{
-  /*
-   * TODO: generalise to track all jalview events to orchestrate batch
-   * processing events.
-   */
+  @Override
+  public String arrayToSeparatorList(String[] array)
+  {
+    return appLoader.arrayToSeparatorList(array);
+  }
 
-  private int queued = 0;
+  @Override
+  public String[] separatorListToArray(String list)
+  {
+    return appLoader.separatorListToArray(list);
+  }
 
-  private int running = 0;
+  //// probably not needed in JalviewJS -- From when Jmol and Jalview did not
+  //// have a direct connection?
 
-  public FeatureFetcher()
+  @Override
+  public void setMouseoverListener(String listener)
   {
+    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
 
   }
 
-  public void addFetcher(final AlignFrame af, final Vector dasSources)
+  @Override
+  public void setMouseoverListener(AlignFrameI af, String listener)
   {
-    final long id = System.currentTimeMillis();
-    queued++;
-    final FeatureFetcher us = this;
-    new Thread(new Runnable()
-    {
+    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
 
-      public void run()
-      {
-        synchronized (us)
-        {
-          queued--;
-          running++;
-        }
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void setSelectionListener(String listener)
+  {
+    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
 
-        af.setProgressBar(MessageManager.getString("status.das_features_being_retrived"), id);
-        af.featureSettings_actionPerformed(null);
-        af.featureSettings.fetchDasFeatures(dasSources, true);
-        af.setProgressBar(null, id);
-        synchronized (us)
-        {
-          running--;
-        }
-      }
-    }).start();
   }
 
-  public synchronized boolean allFinished()
+  @Override
+  public void setSelectionListener(AlignFrameI af, String listener)
   {
-    return queued == 0 && running == 0;
+    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void setStructureListener(String listener, String modelSet)
+  {
+    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void removeJavascriptListener(AlignFrameI af, String listener)
+  {
+    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void mouseOverStructure(String pdbResNum, String chain,
+          String pdbfile)
+  {
+    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
+
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void showOverview()
+  {
+    currentAlignFrame.overviewMenuItem_actionPerformed(null);
   }
 
 }
+