Catching mapred exceptions on the client

[praveen.peddi]

Hello all,
I have few mapreduce jobs that I am calling from a java driver. The problem I 
am facing is that when there is an exception in mapred job, the exception is 
not propogated to the client so even if first job failed, its going to second 
job and so on. Is there an another way of catching exceptions from mapred jobs 
on the client side?

I am using hadoop-0.20.2.

My Example is:
Driver {
         try {
        Call MapredJob1;
        Call MapredJob2;
        ..
        ..
        }catch(Exception e) {
                throw new exception;
        }
}

When MapredJob1 throws ClassNotFoundException, MapredJob2 and others are still 
executing.

Any insight into it is appreciated.

Praveen