Great ! Looking forward to a patch soon.
----- Original Message ----- From: Dennis Kubes (JIRA) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Sat Mar 08 17:07:46 2008 Subject: [jira] Commented: (HADOOP-1622) Hadoop should provide a way to allow the user to specify jar file(s) the user job depends on [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1622?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12576671#action_12576671 ] Dennis Kubes commented on HADOOP-1622: -------------------------------------- No updates yet, but I should have time to start working on this again in the next couple of days, right after I finish some working on converting hadoop RPC to NIO. > Hadoop should provide a way to allow the user to specify jar file(s) the user > job depends on > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-1622 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1622 > Project: Hadoop Core > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: mapred > Reporter: Runping Qi > Assignee: Dennis Kubes > Attachments: hadoop-1622-4-20071008.patch, HADOOP-1622-5.patch, > HADOOP-1622-6.patch, HADOOP-1622-7.patch, HADOOP-1622-8.patch, > HADOOP-1622-9.patch, multipleJobJars.patch, multipleJobResources.patch, > multipleJobResources2.patch > > > More likely than not, a user's job may depend on multiple jars. > Right now, when submitting a job through bin/hadoop, there is no way for the > user to specify that. > A walk around for that is to re-package all the dependent jars into a new jar > or put the dependent jar files in the lib dir of the new jar. > This walk around causes unnecessary inconvenience to the user. Furthermore, > if the user does not own the main function > (like the case when the user uses Aggregate, or datajoin, streaming), the > user has to re-package those system jar files too. > It is much desired that hadoop provides a clean and simple way for the user > to specify a list of dependent jar files at the time > of job submission. Someting like: > bin/hadoop .... --depending_jars j1.jar:j2.jar -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
