Hi,
a bit of history would be interesting here :-)
Basically, when XWiki was first written its aim was to provide an eXtended - wiki (hence X - Wiki) that would include the best features out there at the time (back in 2003 I think). Ludovic was inspired by TWiki he used to great effect in his previous jobs, but felt like something was missing.
Then he wrote XWiki, with the aim of making it a modular and flexible platform. It is one of the few wikis to offer the easy application building capabilities it has, and the only Open Source wiki I know of to provide this. TWiki offers flexibility through plugins too, but not to the level XWiki does. You can create a template in minutes and tweak it to suit your need, immediately.
To keep it short, XWiki is meant by design to be easy to add to and to build from while TWiki does so less natively.
Then all the reasons you suggested are important too (XWiki is written in JAVA, it has a great user group, its future direction is decided clearly and access control rights are tough), depending on what your requirements are and what programmation languages you are literate in...
Hope this helps a bit, please ask for more details if you need them :-)
Guillaume
On 21/06/07, wangwh@att.net
<wangwh@att.net> wrote:Hi, all XWiki users,
I know this is a tough question....
Anyone has experience in using TWiki and willing to point out why would anyone choose XWiki over TWiki?
I know both are pretty good, both are open source, both have many supporters, both can do almost the same things, but for someone new, what are the reasons to consider to choose XWiki?
For it is written in JAVA? for the user group? for the future direction? for the access control?
Wei-hsing
ps. Anyone plan to attend Wikimania in Taiwan this summer? to learn from the MediaWiki or WikiMedia? (I know Vincent is, right?)
--
You receive this message as a subscriber of the xwiki-users@objectweb.org mailing list.
To unsubscribe: mailto:
xwiki-users-unsubscribe@objectweb.org
For general help: mailto:sympa@objectweb.org?subject=help
ObjectWeb mailing lists service home page:
http://www.objectweb.org/wws
--
http://wikibc.blogspot.com/