JSPWiki vs. XWiki vs. WikiNi

General Features JSPWiki XWiki WikiNi
Version
2.11.0
18.7.0
0.5.0
Last Release Date
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2026-08-31 (13 days ago)
2007-04-12 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2026-08-31 (13 days ago)
2009-02-10 (17 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
Programming Language
Java
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0 ($, €, £, ¥, ...)
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
End Users/Desktop, Education
Hosting Features JSPWiki XWiki WikiNi
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements JSPWiki XWiki WikiNi
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any platform supporting Java 21 or greater
all (UNIX, Windows, MacOS X)
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 21, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage JSPWiki XWiki WikiNi
Text Files
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Optional
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Optional
Yes
No
Oracle
Optional
Yes
No
SQLite
Optional
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki XWiki WikiNi
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Unknown
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
No
No
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Patch
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Yes
No
Development/Support JSPWiki XWiki WikiNi
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
118 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki XWiki WikiNi
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki XWiki WikiNi
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
No
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Unknown
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
French
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
No
Yes
Patch
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links JSPWiki XWiki WikiNi
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features JSPWiki XWiki WikiNi
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Patch
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Patch
Usability JSPWiki XWiki WikiNi
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
No
No
Statistics JSPWiki XWiki WikiNi
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Yes
No
Output JSPWiki XWiki WikiNi
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki XWiki WikiNi
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Extras JSPWiki XWiki WikiNi
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki XWiki WikiNi
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
wiki word (XxxXxxxxx)
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
[[ ]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
====== ====== level 1
===== ===== level 2
==== ==== level 3
=== === level 4
== == level 5

Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
** **
Italics Format
''italics''
//Italics//
// //
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
__ __
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
## ##
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--Strike--
@@ @@
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
,,subscript,,
Images
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
[space] level 1
[space][space] level 2
[space][space][...] level X
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
-
-
-
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1)
1)
1)
Definition Lists
;term:definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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