HDFS Proxy in contrib provides HTTP interface over HDFS. Its not very RESTful but we are working on a new version which will have a REST API.
AFAIK, Oozie will provide REST API for launching MR jobs. Venkatesh On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:31 PM, eluharani zineellabidine <eluhar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am still a newbie to Hadoop so please understand my confusions. I went > through many tutorials and through Hadoop's API and yet couldn't figure out > how to make REST webserbvice that would initialize a Map/Reduce Job and read > the result. Can anybody help with this issue? Is(are) there any specific > class(es) to use, or do I have to make some specific integration? > > I really appreciate your time and help. > > -- > ZineEllabidine Eluharani > -- Regards, Venkatesh “Perfection (in design) is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
