It hasn't been too long, but vamsas is now well under way. Initial packaging can be found there: http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-java/trunk/libvamsas-client-java svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-java/trunk/libvamsas-client-java I'll check now if the newer jalview builds and runs with it, and I'll upload it then. Cheers, Vincent