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Features

• WikiMarkup/Structured Text
  • Text effects: Bold, italic, monotyped, css styled
  • Bracketed hyperlinking and good old CamelCase.
  • Bulleted, numbered, and definition lists
  • Tables and sortable tables
  • Footnotes[1]
  • Three levels of heading.
  • InterWiki linking.
  • Tabs and collapsible lists
• File attachments
• Templates support -- so you can design your own themes or layouts. See the list of ContributedTemplates.
• Data storage: JSPWiki comes with three WikiPageProviders and has the capability to plug in other ones.
  • MySQL or any other database server is not needed! Wiki pages are saved as plain text files out-of-the-box.
  • However, database page providers can be used too, if it exists, via third party ContributedProviders.
• Security
  • Wiki-level and page-level privilege control.
  • Security can be applied to individual users as well as to entire groups.
  • Authentication: simple XML file-based, database-based, container-managed and custom authentication modules can be used.
  • Authorization: security policies and ACLs can be applied to authentication status (anonymous, cookie-based, authenticated), container roles or ad hoc wiki groups you set up yourself
• Easy plugin interface for writing your own additions.
  • Some of the Core Plugins distributed with JSPWiki are: Counter, CurrentTimePlugin, Image, InsertPage, TableOfContentsPlugin, VotePlugin, WikiFormsPlugin, and for blogging: WeblogArchivePlugin, WeblogEntryPlugin, WeblogPlugin.
  • A few of the many ContributedPlugins that are available: CalendarPlugin, ColorCodePlugin, EmailNotifierPlugin, GoogleMapsPlugin, ImageGenJFreeChart, QuotationPlugin, TasksPlugin.
• UTF-8 support.
• JavaServerPages-based
• Easy-ish installation (if you have ever installed other JSP-based applications, that is :-).
• Page locking to prevent editing conflicts
• Support for Multiple Wikis

What's going to come next

• See JSPWikiFeatureRoadMap.

[#1] Here's a footnote. [#2] Here's a footnote as well.