ProntoWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Version
1.0.1
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2026-02-06 (today)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Clay Alberty
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
BSD
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
C#
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
Free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
System Requirements ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Windows
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
IIS 5+
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Unknown
Yes
MySQL
Unknown
Optional
PostgreSQL
Unknown
Optional
Oracle
Unknown
Optional
SQLite
Unknown
Optional
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
Optional
RCS
Unknown
Plugin
Other
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
.NET Membership platform
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Plugin
nofollow
No
Optional
Blacklist
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Yes
Development/Support ProntoWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
Change Summary
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Unknown
Yes
Plugin System
No
Yes
Special Features ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
No
Plugin
Comments
No
Flat
Categories
Optional
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Links ProntoWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
InterWiki
No
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Image Links
Optional
Yes
Windows Shares
No
Optional
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features ProntoWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Math formulas
No
Plugin
Tables
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Unknown
Yes
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Footnotes
Optional
Yes
Quoting
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
No
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
Optional
Usability ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
Optional
Statistics ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Unknown
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Optional
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
Analysis
No
No
Output ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
HTML Export
No
Optional
XML export
No
No
PDF Export
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files ProntoWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
Unknown
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Extras ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
[pagename]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
{title|url}
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
!, !!, !!!
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
''italics''
''italics''
Underline Format
__under__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<<super>> (using custom tags)
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
{guid} - this is displayed and can be inserted automatically for each image/page
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
available through custom tags
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
multiple spaces -> &nbsp;
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
+
++
+++
++++
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
#
##
###
####
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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