Jumper 2.0.1.5 released

The Jumper 2.0.1.5 platform was released today with full compatibility with PHP 5.3

Jumper and XAMPP 1.7.1

Many customers have been asking us about the errors that occur when loading Jumper with XAMPP 1.7.2.

As Punit mentioned Jumper 2.0.1.4 is not compatible with PHP 5.3.

We are working to fix this problem.

Until we have published this fix please use the previous version of XAMPP 1.7.1.

You can still find it on Sourceforge at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/

Just scroll down to the folder that is titled XAMPP Windows.

Click on this folder and then click on the sub-folder titled 1.7.1 and select the appropriate version. We recommend xampp-win32-1.7.1.zip

Please keep an eye on this blog for the fix which will be published soon.

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Please note that Jumper 2.0.1.4 is not compatible with PHP 5.3

This new version of PHP appears to have some conflicts that do not exist in the PHP 5.2 version. Please use PHP 5.2 available in XAMPP 1.7.1.

We will have more information soon.

Great all-in-one package for Jumper

If you are looking to install Jumper on Windows it can be a challenge getting Apache, PHP and mySQL installed.

A great one stop shop solution for installing Apache, PHP, and MYSQL for Windows is to install XAMPP. You can get it here ApacheFriends.org

A good tutorial on setting up Apache and MySQL on Windows using the XAMPP package is available at Six Revisions .

Any questions, comments, bugs, or challenges please post them in the Jumper 2.0 Developers Group

Jumper 2.0 is open source and open development

The Jumper 2.0 software is open source and open development. We are a growing project that provides the source code under the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) but the decisions about how the code got to that state were initially developed by Jumper Networks and a very close knit community.

With the current release of Jumper 2.0.1.1 we are opening the software development to a select community of developers who will have all the requisite rights to edit, modify and redistribute the code as well as participate in future decisions for how or why the code should be further developed and expanded.

With the tremendous growth of the software, approaching over 700 installations at the time of this blog, the team is simply unable to keep up with the growth.

We currently have many users of the software who offer feedback, bug reports and ideas. We are looking for those individuals with the talent to help evolve the software to the next stage. Those who have the necessary skill, can work with the existing community, and who can become true shareholders in the project. If you would like to get more involved in the development process we need your help. We are expanding the project on Sourceforge to take on a limited number of new developers.

If you are a registered Sourceforge user contact the Jumper project administrator.

Jumper 2.0 is an Open Community

The Jumper 2.0 Open Source Project is a community effort. We invite open participation in this blog. Anyone who is currently using the Jumper 2.0 platform, is currently doing development on the platform, or has just installed the platform please feel free to contribute. To become an author contact sperry@jumpernetworks.com and we will extend author privileges.

Jumper 2.0 System Requirements

Jumper 2.0 is open source software. It was developed on Sourceforge as a community effort, led by Jumper Networks, devoted to building and maintaining the open source version of Jumper, the award winning, ground breaking and revolutionary Enterprise Bookmarking platform.

Jumper 2.0 has certain technical requirements that must be met (i.e. installed and/or configured) on your server before you attempt to install it.

Web Server
Apache
Apache (Apache 1, Apache 2) is the most popular web server in the world, and is the one recommended by the Jumper Development Team for use with Jumper 2.0. It can be downloaded from the Apache HTTPD Project's site

IIS
Microsoft's IIS (Internet Information Services) web server has also been known to work. But there are some limitations. See Known Issues for details. Short URLs work, but Jump redirects are not yet supported for IIS.

Zeus, ...
There are a lot of alternative web servers. Jumper should work on any web server that can run PHP. But short URLs / Jump redirects (URL rewrite module) probably do not work with all of them.

PHP
Jumper is written in PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor). It is one of the most popular, free web-based languages in the world today. It can also be downloaded gratis from the PHP Project's site.

PHP Version Compatibility
Jumper requires at least version 4.3.0 (or more recent) or 5.x (5.0.4 or more recent) to function properly.

Note:
PHP 5 is highly recommended - PHP will not release any security updates for PHP 4 after 8/8/2008. If your webhost is still running PHP 4, please ask them to switch to PHP 5 as soon as possible for security reasons (not just for Jumper, but for all PHP applications).

PHP Settings
In addition to a basic PHP installation, Jumper requires certain PHP settings to be setup correctly in order to function optimally.

PHP settings can be changed in php.ini, as described in the PHP documentation available at http://php.net/mysql

MySQL is not enabled by default, nor is the MySQL library bundled with PHP. In order to have these functions available, you must compile PHP with MySQL support.

Database
Jumper can only be installed and run on the MySQL 3.x or 4.x, 5.x database management systems (DBMS).

Note:
This applies only to the database that Jumper runs on. The Jumper server has drivers for back-end integration into any JDBC or ODBC compatible database server.

As such Jumper has drivers for integration into:
MySQL 3.x or 4.x, 5.x
PostgreSQL 7.x, 8.x
Oracle 9i or 10g, IBM DB2 8.2
Microsoft SQL Server

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