Hi there- You probably want to see this...
http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#dm.column.metadata You can get the CF's from HTableDescriptor. http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/HTableDescriptor.ht ml On 3/12/12 10:10 AM, "Mahdi Negahi" <negahi.ma...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >Dear All friends > >Is there any way to retrieve a table's column families and columns with >Java. > >for example, i want to scan a table that i know only its name. >