Cannot connect to JABAWS webservice from Jalview 2.11.2.0

I cannot connect to the JABAWS web server. I have tried this from home internet and from the office behind the University of Adelaide firewall. Same result for both.

Started jalview, here is the terminal output:

a1071750@BxDave:~$ jalview
Running jalview.bin.Jalview with memory setting -Xmx30108262400
Java version: 11.0.14.1
Java Home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64
amd64 Linux 5.4.0-107-generic
Jalview Version: 2.11.2.0 (Source git-commit:53f3ef526c [releases/Release_2_11_2_Branch])
WARNING: sun.reflect.Reflection.getCallerClass is not supported. This will impact performance.
# INFO: Setting default net timeout to 30 seconds.
Gtk-Message: 17:46:03.438: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"
SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder".
SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for further details.
INFO - Loaded Sequence Ontology from so-xp-simple.obo.zip (70ms)
INFO - Getting messages for lang: en_AU
WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
WARNING: Illegal reflective access by jalview.gui.Desktop (file:/opt/jalview-all-2.11.2.0-j1.8.jar) to field sun.awt.X11.XToolkit.awtAppClassName
WARNING: Please consider reporting this to the maintainers of jalview.gui.Desktop
WARNING: Use --illegal-access=warn to enable warnings of further illegal reflective access operations
WARNING: All illegal access operations will be denied in a future release
INFO - Setting no proxy settings
ERROR - Exception when discovering Jws2 services.
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/ws/WebServiceException
at jalview.ws.jws2.JabaWsServerQuery.run(JabaWsServerQuery.java:117) [jalview-all-2.11.2.0-j1.8.jar:2.11.2.0]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829) [?:?]
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException
at jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:581) ~[?:?]
at jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:178) ~[?:?]
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:522) ~[?:?]
... 2 more
File format identified as Jalview
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/JAXBContext
at jalview.project.Jalview2XML.loadJalviewAlign(Jalview2XML.java:2886)
at jalview.project.Jalview2XML.loadJalviewAlign(Jalview2XML.java:2752)
at jalview.io.FileLoader.run(FileLoader.java:339)
at jalview.io.FileLoader._LoadFileWaitTillLoaded(FileLoader.java:211)
at jalview.io.FileLoader.LoadFileWaitTillLoaded(FileLoader.java:164)
at jalview.bin.Jalview.doMain(Jalview.java:832)
at jalview.bin.Jalview.main(Jalview.java:216)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:581)
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:178)
at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:522)
... 7 more

At this point the GUI loads (see attached screenshot).



Using no proxy server.

As you can see from the preferences (see image) the web server is shown, but does not connect.



Finally tried pinging the web server again, still no joy. Pinged the main Dundee web site as well and then Exeter and Glasgow. For some reason Scotland does not respond to pings. See below.

a1071750@BxDave:~$ ping www.dundee.ac.uk
PING sky.dundee.ac.uk (134.36.2.74) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- sky.dundee.ac.uk ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 5119ms

a1071750@BxDave:~$ ping www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk
PING www-prod.compbio.dundee.ac.uk (134.36.65.192) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- www-prod.compbio.dundee.ac.uk ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 7168ms

a1071750@BxDave:~$ ping www.gla.ac.uk
PING www.gla.ac.uk (130.209.16.93) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- www.gla.ac.uk ping statistics ---
7 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 6131ms

a1071750@BxDave:~$ ping www.exeter.ac.uk
PING d3k7x9v5al5uiv.cloudfront.net (65.8.33.58) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from server-65-8-33-58.mel50.r.cloudfront.net (65.8.33.58): icmp_seq=1 ttl=245 time=23.0 ms
64 bytes from server-65-8-33-58.mel50.r.cloudfront.net (65.8.33.58): icmp_seq=2 ttl=245 time=24.2 ms
64 bytes from server-65-8-33-58.mel50.r.cloudfront.net (65.8.33.58): icmp_seq=3 ttl=245 time=29.6 ms
64 bytes from server-65-8-33-58.mel50.r.cloudfront.net (65.8.33.58): icmp_seq=4 ttl=245 time=25.0 ms
64 bytes from server-65-8-33-58.mel50.r.cloudfront.net (65.8.33.58): icmp_seq=5 ttl=245 time=28.2 ms
64 bytes from server-65-8-33-58.mel50.r.cloudfront.net (65.8.33.58): icmp_seq=6 ttl=245 time=26.4 ms
^C
--- d3k7x9v5al5uiv.cloudfront.net ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 5006ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 22.983/26.059/29.567/2.286 ms