JSPWiki vs. XWiki vs. WikiASP

General Features JSPWiki XWiki WikiASP
Version
2.11.0
16.3.1
1.6.2
Last Release Date
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2024-05-09 (5 days ago)
2005-10-12 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2024-05-13 (1 day ago)
2006-08-26 (17 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
XWiki Development Team
Elrey Ronald V.
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
FREE
Programming Language
Java
Java
ASP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Beta
Intended Audience
all
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Non-IT, Student, Hobbyist
Hosting Features JSPWiki XWiki WikiASP
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 WikiASP
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Any platform supporting Java 11 or greater
Windows
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Servlet 3.1+
IIS
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Java 11, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Optional ADOX FSO components on IIS
Datastorage JSPWiki XWiki WikiASP
Text Files
Yes
No
Unknown
MySQL
Optional
Yes
Unknown
PostgreSQL
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Oracle
Optional
Yes
Unknown
SQLite
Optional
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
Optional
No
Unknown
RCS
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
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
MS Access DB
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki XWiki WikiASP
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
XWiki, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
Optional
No
No
Mail Encryption
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
nofollow
Optional
No
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Development/Support JSPWiki XWiki WikiASP
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki XWiki WikiASP
Preview
Yes
Yes
No
Minor Changes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features JSPWiki XWiki WikiASP
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
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
0
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
No
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Namespaces
No
Yes
Unknown
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Links JSPWiki XWiki WikiASP
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Unknown
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
Unknown
Image Links
Yes
Yes
No
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features JSPWiki XWiki WikiASP
HTML Tags
Optional
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Textile Support
No
No
Unknown
BBCode Support
No
No
Unknown
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Unknown
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Yes
Usability JSPWiki XWiki WikiASP
Section Editing
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Auto Signature
Optional
No
Yes
Statistics JSPWiki XWiki WikiASP
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Unknown
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
Yes
Analysis
No
Yes
Unknown
Output JSPWiki XWiki WikiASP
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Patch
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Unknown
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
Unknown
XML export
No
Yes
Unknown
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Office Export
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki XWiki WikiASP
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
No
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
No
Extras JSPWiki XWiki WikiASP
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 WikiASP
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)
WikiWord
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
[New Cnn|http://www.cnn.com]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
==Headline1
===Headline2
====Headline3
=====Headline4
Bold Format
__bold__
**bold**
'''BoldFormat'''

{bold}BoldFormat{/b}
Italics Format
''italics''
//Italics//
''The quotation''
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
__underline__
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
##monospace##
<space char here>This is mono
Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
--Strike--
_This is Strike Through_
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
image:http://wite/image/icon.jpg

image:local:icon.jpg
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
>Indent 1
>>Indent2
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* List
** list
*** list
* Test
* Bullets
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
1. Test Numeer
1. Test Two

Definition Lists
;term:definition
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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