webMathematica adds interactive calculations and
visualization to websites by integrating Mathematica with the
latest web server technology.
How is webMathematica different from Mathematica?
webMathematica and Mathematica
have the same underlying engine, but they provide fundamentally
different user interfaces and are aimed at different types of
users.
webMathematica offers access to specific
Mathematica applications through a web browser or other web
clients. The standard interface provided requires little training to
use effectively. In most cases, users neither have to be familiar
with Mathematica nor need to know they are using
Mathematica.
Similarly, webMathematica
developers need only a basic knowledge of HTML and
Mathematica to create complete, full-featured websites. Other
technical programs require Java programming skills and only allow
creation of small applets. Also, because webMathematica can
access the full range of Mathematica's built-in computational
abilities, developers don't need to work with extra code
libraries.
In some sense, Mathematica is a development
environment for webMathematica sites. As an example, you can
work on code in Mathematica that models some physical
process—code that can then be placed into a webMathematica
site to enable others to run the model and use its results for
their regular work.
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