JSPWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features JSPWiki PmWiki
Version
2.11.0
2.3.33
Last Release Date
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2024-04-20 (8 days ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (7 days ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL2+
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
All
System Requirements JSPWiki PmWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
none
Datastorage JSPWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Optional
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Optional
No
Oracle
Optional
No
SQLite
Optional
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Optional
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Optional
Development/Support JSPWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Plugin
Optional
Comments
Flat
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Links JSPWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features JSPWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Yes
Optional
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Plugin
Usability JSPWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
No
No
Recent Visitors
No
Plugin
Analysis
No
Plugin
Output JSPWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Optional
Plugin
XML export
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files JSPWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Filenames only
Extras JSPWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples JSPWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
__bold__
'''bold'''
Italics Format
''italics''
''italic''
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
{-strikethrough-}
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'}]
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
;term:definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
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