ErfurtWiki vs. JSPWiki vs. ProntoWiki

General Features ErfurtWiki JSPWiki ProntoWiki
Version
R1.02b (kind of final release :-)
2.11.0
1.0.1
Last Release Date
2005-06-16 (20 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2026-02-06 (today)
Last Update here
2010-04-04 (15 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
Author
Mario Salzer & Andi Fundinger
Apache Software Foundation
Clay Alberty
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Public Domain (!)
Apache License 2.0
BSD
Programming Language
PHP
Java
C#
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database, Files
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
small + medium sites, development teams
all
System Requirements ErfurtWiki JSPWiki ProntoWiki
Operating System
any
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
anything with PHP support
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
IIS 5+
Other Requirements
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
Datastorage ErfurtWiki JSPWiki ProntoWiki
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
MySQL
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
Oracle
No
Optional
Unknown
SQLite
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
Plugin
Optional
Unknown
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Other
no
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
Security/Anti-Spam ErfurtWiki JSPWiki ProntoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
UNIX, LDAP, MySQL, PHP, other
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
.NET Membership platform
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Plugin
No
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Patch
Yes
No
Development/Support ErfurtWiki JSPWiki ProntoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
not yet :-)
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
114 ⭐
N/A
Common Features ErfurtWiki JSPWiki ProntoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Plugin
No
No
Change Summary
Plugin
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features ErfurtWiki JSPWiki ProntoWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Interface Languages
4
German, English, Spanish, Dutch
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
Email notification
Plugin
Plugin
No
Comments
Plugin
Flat
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Optional
Namespaces
No
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Patch
Unknown
Structured Data
No
Yes
Unknown
Links ErfurtWiki JSPWiki ProntoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Patch
Yes
Optional
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
No
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features ErfurtWiki JSPWiki ProntoWiki
HTML Tags
Plugin
Optional
Some
Math formulas
No
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
none
CREOLE support
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
No
Unknown
Textile Support
No
No
Unknown
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Quoting
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Scripting
optional
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Plugin
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Optional
No
Usability ErfurtWiki JSPWiki ProntoWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Patch
No
No
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
No
Access Keys
Optional
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Optional
No
Statistics ErfurtWiki JSPWiki ProntoWiki
Recent Changes
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
No
Optional
Recent Visitors
Optional
No
No
Analysis
No
No
No
Output ErfurtWiki JSPWiki ProntoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Plugin
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Optional
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
No
XML export
Optional
No
No
PDF Export
Optional
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ErfurtWiki JSPWiki ProntoWiki
File Attachments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Extras ErfurtWiki JSPWiki ProntoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
No
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ErfurtWiki JSPWiki ProntoWiki
Internal Link
WikiPage
[WikiPage | Go here]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[pagename]
External Link
http://erfurtwiki.sf.net
[http://erfurtwiki.sf.net | Go here]
mario@wiki.net
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
{title|url}
Headlines
!!! Big Headline
!! Medium Headline
! Section Headline
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!, !!, !!!
Bold Format
__bold text__
**bold text**
__bold__
**bold**
Italics Format
''ialic text''
''italics''
''italics''
Underline Format
optional or via css
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__under__
Monospace Format
==monospaced text==
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
optional or via css
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
Superscript Format
^^superscript text^^
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<<super>> (using custom tags)
Subscript Format
optional or via css
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
Images
[link to the image.jpg]
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
Aligning Text
optional or via css
%%(text-align: right) text %%
available through custom tags
Text Indentation
just use 3 spaces or tabs
indented text
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
Bulleted Lists
* Item A
* Item B
** Item B1
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
+
++
+++
++++
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
##* Item 1.1a
##* Item 1.1b

# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
#
##
###
####
Definition Lists
:definition: explanation
:anotherdef: another description
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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