Hi Jay Hadoop supports this already using the JavaSerialization class. I'm not sure it is very performant though, when compared to usual Writable serialization.
Alternatively you could use Avro (SpecificRecord objects auto-generated from a schema file). Cheers Dave On 8 October 2012 15:13, Jay Vyas <jayunit...@gmail.com> wrote: > One of the benefits of using autogenerated objects for serialization, we > are finding, is just the fact that there is a strong, semantically > meaningful API. This could seemingly be done by using a custom writable > class though, as well. So... Does anyone know if there is a POJO writable > framework for Hadoop? I think it would be relatively easy to implement one > by just extending, for example, MapWritable. > > -- > Jay Vyas > MMSB/UCHC
