Sophisticated mathematics application for algebraic manipulation and solution.
Various packages such as 'Plots' for 2D and 3D geometric renderings and animations.
Provides and html based word processing environment for writing papers.
Plot viewer has a small and primitive feature set.
Maple plots are only dynmaic within the application; they are exported as stills.
Does not provide an application programmers interface.
Sophisticated visualization appletcation for geometric manipulation and display.
Portable application, portable data: Java based with XML file format.
Provides an application programmers interface.
Algebraic or geometric necessities may require custom code and programming in Java.
Unlike Maple, it does not facilitate the writing of papers; it's a viewer at heart - not a word processor.
The small number of launch parameters imply that viewing customizations need to be set manually.