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Table of Contents

1. Introduction 

1.1 What is web

Mathematica?

1.2 Why Use 

Mathematica

 in a Web Site? 

1.2.1 Computation 

1.2.2 Interactive Programming Language 

1.2.3 Connectivity 

1.2.4 The 

Mathematica

 Front End 

1.2.5 Mathematical Typesetting and MathML 

1.3 Why a Web Interface? 

1.3.1 Ease of Use 

1.3.2 Server Based Configuration 

1.3.3 Web Technologies 

1.4 Areas of Use for web

Mathematica

1.4.1 Web Computation 

1.4.2 Education 

1.4.3 Publishing 

1.4.4 Research 

1.4.5 Hobbyist 

1.5 web

Mathematica

 Technology 

1.5.1 Requirements 

1.6 web

Mathematica

 2.0 New Features 

Support for Mathematica 4.2 

Simplified Installation 

Extended Documentation and Examples 

New Templating Mechanism Based on JSP Custom Tags 

MathML, SVG, and XML Support 

Support for Catching Message and Print Output 

Support for HTTP File Upload 

Support for HTTP Session Variables 

HTML Formatting Functions 

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