What Is webMathematica?

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.

In some sense, one can consider Mathematica a development environment for webMathematica sites. As an example, Mathematica is suitable for working on code that models some physical process--code that can then be placed into a webMathematica site to enable people to run the model and use its results for their regular work.