I don't know what you really have in mind "generating interactive
web pages". Can you write out a scenario or two of what
you would want?
There are several free lisp packages to do server processes,
including generating html.
MathML is not universally understood by browsers, but even
so, it hardly solves the important communication problems. If it
did, you wouldn't need Java.
If you need Java, you can transmit math by many more
efficient and effective techniques, assuming your goal
is to communicate betweeen a single front end and a single
back end.
There may be some help if you can re-use mathml display code.
RJF
David Bremner wrote:
> There has been some discussion lately of pretty front ends to maxima.
> Although I fall in the Emacs camp for my own use, it occured to me
> that what could be very useful would be the ability to generate
> interactive web pages. One system that can do this is Cinderalla
> (www.cinderella.de). Cinderella works be generating a java applet
> containing the run time.
>
> I guess the simplest option would be to generate math-ml pages with
> cgi-scripts back to some brave host willing to run maxima code.
>
> On the other hand, since there exist a lisp systems (well, the
> ones I found are scheme. I'm too ignorant to know if that is
> fatal) that target java, a more ambitious project may be
> possible.
>
>
> David
>
>
> References:
>
> http://scruffy.cs.umd.edu:8080/seanl/Java/AAAI99/sld090.htm
>
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