Hi Tao, I'm afraid there is no such API. A related JIRA ticket is https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7719.
Regards, ---- Ted Xu On 10/18/11 8:41 AM, "Zhang, Tao" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi, > >Is there a way to get the version of a remote hadoop instance through java >API? > >Suppose there are two machines: A and B. I deploy the hadoop instance on >machine A, while my application is deployed on machine B. Before starting >my application, I want to check whether the hadoop instance version is >compatible with my application, so I want to get the version of the hadoop >instance on machine A from B. > >I go through all the API, only find there is a VersionInfo class which can >get you the local Hadoop version, not the remote instance. Do you have any >ideas about this? > >Thanks and regards! >Tao > >
