A colleague and I have spent a few years developing a really cool Matlab application, MDLcompress. Within Matlab, I can type \"MDLcompress(\'filename.txt\')\" and it will tell
We have developed a toolbox called Modelit Webserver Toolbox that should allow you to do this. We use this ourselves to run a Routing algorithm implemented in Matlab for an online route planner (the link is on our website). You can use the toolbox in conjunction with Tomcat and Matlab (2006b and up) or a compiled Matlab executable. The toolbox also provides a mechanism to run several jobs in parallel.