Re: Mathematica Programming
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- Subject: [mg108972] Re: Mathematica Programming
- From: "Scot T. Martin" <smartin at seas.harvard.edu>
- Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 08:04:32 -0400 (EDT)
As a further hint from webMathematica user, we have used it both on Unix/Apache platform and on Windows platform. The installation is easier and the system more stable with the Windows platform, at least for us. Nevertheless, we still use the Unix/Apache platform for no excellent reason. As a product, I find that webMathematica is superb: the full access to the Mathematica command set really gives an excellent amount of control and possibilities (at very little programming effort) to all kinds of high-end web-based applications (i.e., database, technical, graphical, etc). On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, Arturas Acus wrote: > > Dear David, > > we use webMma several years. Short explanations running linux OS from my > expierence below. > > On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, David Park wrote: > >> Very interesting question. >> >> I have never been able to understand the promotional material for >> webMathematica. Can one run webMathematica from a standard user web site >> provided by an ISP? > > To run webMma you have to sign special agreement with Wolfram and > register server in their data base. > > > Or does one have to have one's own server setup, and >> what would that consist of? > We use our own web server running separate linux machine. In addition to > web server (apache in our case) webMma requires tomcat server. And if You > want not just Mathematica kernel functionality, but also to display Mathematica > generated graphics, then xvnc server is also needed (we use tightvnc). > > > Where would the Mathematica engine that drives >> webMathematica actually reside? (It would be nice to have an answer that I >> could operationally understand and not in some jargon.) > Mathematica is installed in usual unix way for some user. You can > imagine webMma as an java script collection, which accepts web inquiries, > then cals Mathematica kernel (which in turn cals Mathematica front end to generate > graphics) and then puts Mathematica generated rezults back. As I mentioned tomcat > server plays central part here. webMathematica scripts provides call > security check as well as limits for allowed kernel computation time, > memory > size, kernel number, restart times, etc... > > > > Is webMathematica >> something accessible for ordinary Mathematica users and developers, or is it >> ultimately a high priced institutional type application? > > High priced application > > Is it available to >> Premier subscribers? >> >> If I recollect correctly, there is a possibility that in the near future WRI >> will provide a way so that anyone can read a Mathematica notebook on line in >> a web browser. Would this include the use of active controls and be able to >> utilize private packages? Would this be an alternative to webMathematica? >> >> Lots of questions, but being able to communicate efficiently with people who >> don't presently have Mathematica is still the missing link. >> >> >> David Park >> djmpark at comcast.net >> http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/ >> >> >> >> From: Nicholas Chung [mailto:nchung66 at u.washington.edu] >> >> I have Mathematica 7 but I was wondering how it compares to >> WebMathematica and WorkBench? Can I create full applications and >> interactive websites with Mathematica? How much control do I have over >> the user interface design? >> >> >> >> > >