TracWiki vs. ProntoWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Version
0.11.5
1.0.1
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2009-02-17 (16 years ago)
2026-02-06 (today)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-09-04 (16 years ago)
2006-08-23 (19 years ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Edgewall Software
Clay Alberty
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Modified BSD license
BSD
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Python
C#
Java
Data Storage
Database
Database
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free
0
Development status
Beta
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Software development teams
all
System Requirements TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
Linux distributions, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and MS Windows
Windows
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Standalone (builtin)
IIS 5+
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
Python, setuptools, Genshi, SQLite or PostgreSQL or MySQL
.NET framework v2.0 or higher
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
No
Unknown
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Unknown
Optional
PostgreSQL
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Oracle
No
Unknown
Optional
SQLite
Yes
Unknown
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
Unknown
Optional
RCS
No
Unknown
Plugin
Other
0
SQLExpress or SQL 2000 or SQL 2005
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
File, Database, LDAP (all webserver dependant)
.NET Membership platform
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
No
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
No
Optional
Blacklist
Plugin
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Yes
Development/Support TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Interface Languages
141
Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bihari, Bislama, Bengali; Bangla, Tibetan, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Bhutani, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Fiji, Faroese, French, Frisian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Gujarati, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiak, Icelandic, Italian, Inuktitut, Japanese, Javanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Greenlandic, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Kirghiz, Latin, Lingala, Laothian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Maori, Macedonian, Malayalam, Mongolian, Moldavian, Marathi, Malay, Maltese, Burmese, Nauru, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Oromo, Oriya, Punjabi, Polish, Pashto, Pushto, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Kirundi, Romanian, Russian, Kinyarwanda, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Sangho, Serbo-Croatian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Shona, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Siswati, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swedish, Swahili, Tamil, Telugu, Tajik, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkmen, Tagalog, Setswana, Tonga, Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Uighur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, Chinese, Chinese Traditional, Zulu
1
English
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Plugin
No
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
No
Flat
Categories
Yes
Optional
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Links TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Optional
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
none
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Unknown
No
Textile Support
Yes
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
No
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
yes, using Python
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Plugin
No
Yes
Feed Aggregation
No
No
Optional
Usability TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
No
No
Yes
Access Keys
No
No
Yes
Auto Signature
No
No
Optional
Statistics TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
No
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
No
Optional
No
Recent Visitors
No
No
No
Analysis
No
No
No
Output TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
No
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
No
No
Optional
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Embedded Video
No
Unknown
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Extras TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
No
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
No
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
No
Unknown
Yes
Blogs
No
Unknown
Yes
Ticket System
Yes
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TracWiki ProntoWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
CamelCase
[wiki:ISO9000]
[wiki:TitleIndex Title Index]
[pagename]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
[http://www.edgewall.com/ Edgewall Software]
{title|url}
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
=== Explicit id === #using-explicit-id-in-heading
!, !!, !!!
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
'''bold'''
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
''italic''
''italics''
''italics''
Underline Format
__underline__
__under__
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
{{{monospace}}}
`monospace`
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
~~strike-through~~
<<strike>> (using custom tags)
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
^superscript^
<<super>> (using custom tags)
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
,,subscript,,
<<sub>> (using custom tags)
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
Images
[[Image(photo.jpg)]]                           # simplest
[[Image(photo.jpg, 120px)]]                    # with size
[[Image(photo.jpg, right)]]                    # aligned by keyword
[[Image(photo.jpg, nolink)]]                   # without link
{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 1
+
++
+++
++++
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
1. Item 1
#
##
###
####
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
term::
definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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