[Jalview-discuss] Webservice access from the applet

[Jim Procter]

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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