JSPWiki vs. TWiki vs. XoWiki

General Features JSPWiki TWiki XoWiki
Version
2.11.0
TWiki-6.1.0
0.113
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2009-02-17 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2009-03-13 (17 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Prof. Gustaf Neumann
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
BSD
Programming Language
Java
Perl, JavaScript
XOTcl and Tcl
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
large and small organizations as well as individuals
System Requirements JSPWiki TWiki XoWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Unix, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Root Access
No
No
Yes
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
AOLServer
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage JSPWiki TWiki XoWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
No
MySQL
Optional
No
No
PostgreSQL
Optional
No
Yes
Oracle
Optional
No
Yes
SQLite
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki TWiki XoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
PAM, LDAP, Active Directory (LDAP)
Host Blocking
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Development/Support JSPWiki TWiki XoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
113 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki TWiki XoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Unknown
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki TWiki XoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
3
German, English, Spanish
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Optional
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Links JSPWiki TWiki XoWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Plugin
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features JSPWiki TWiki XoWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Yes
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Yes
Usability JSPWiki TWiki XoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Statistics JSPWiki TWiki XoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Yes
Output JSPWiki TWiki XoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Unknown
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Unknown
XML export
No
Plugin
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki TWiki XoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras JSPWiki TWiki XoWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki TWiki XoWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
__bold__
*bold*
Italics Format
''italics''
_italic_
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>subscript</sub>
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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