Hi, I think this is a bug in Spark, because changing my program to using a main method instead of using the App trait fixes this problem. I've filed this as SPARK-2175, apologies if this turns out to be a duplicate.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-2175 Regards, Brandon. -- View this message in context: http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/NullPointerExceptions-when-using-val-or-broadcast-on-a-standalone-cluster-tp7524p7797.html Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com.