You could put the variables in ZooKeeper and then they would be shared :) ben
On Friday 12 October 2007, Owen O'Malley wrote: > On Oct 11, 2007, at 9:54 PM, James Yu wrote: > > I put all user global variables in a class I called MyGlobals. > > Since map/reduce is distributed in general, you should be careful of > using global variables. I find it to be better practice to keep all > of the state variables in either the Mapper or Reducer itself to > remind myself that it is _not_ shared between Mappers, Reducers, and > the launching program. > > -- Owen
