Integrated Web Services Support

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Example: Currency Rate Function

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Installing an external web service gives Mathematica a function getRate that looks up current exchange rates:

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Out[2]:= 23.2462

A few minutes later, the rate has changed slightly:

Out[3]:= 22.9165

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Example: Searching Amazon

Using Amazon.com's web services interface, searches can be made from within Mathematica.

For example, evaluating AuthorSearch["Stephen Wolfram", 1], Mathematica reports the results in an appropriately grouped notebook.

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Example: TerraServer Explorer

TerraServer offers satellite maps of the U.S. through a web service that is called up in the following example, in which Mathematica uses an interface constructed with GUIKit.