Hi There, Fred.
The reason we never included the webservices client in the applet was
indeed that it's intended to be a lightweight visualization tool, and
when Jalview 2 was first released, the applet was created by cutting
down the desktop GUI to make it smaller and faster. The SOAP clients in
the original code needed a bunch of XML libraries that weren't available
in the browser, so we decided to skip out the alignment functionality
entirely.
It is currently a fair amount of work to add the alignment and analysis
functionality - but I am currently working towards a new architecture
that would make it much easier to add in new analysis functionality in
the applet (basically, I'm unifying the gui classes so - if you wish -
you can simply add in the additional analysis/service clients and they
will appear in the applet's gui) - if you're interested in helping with
this then please get in contact!
Jim.
On 14/03/2012 09:33, Fred Ludlow wrote:
Hi,
It says on the website that you can't call alignment webservices from
the applet version of Jalview - is this due to Java's security model,
or just that the applet is intended as a lighter weight viewer-only
version? A bit of background: I work at a biotech, and am trying to
make it a bit easier for people to share alignment data internally -
my first thought was, stick the applet in a web-page with some
controls for loading / saving projects to a central database (mostly
to avoid subtley different versions of the data lying about on
different machines) but this loses the ability to call jabaws services.
So, if the webservices are missing from the applet because somewhere a
flag is set to leave them out and I can rebuild it with them in, that
would be great, but if it's a serious amount of work, then we can just
get people to run the full app.
Thanks,
Fred
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