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Amar Kamat commented on HADOOP-3628:
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I would go for {{STARTING, INITIALIZING, RUNNING, READY, FAILED, TERMINATED}}. 
Descriptions follow
{{STARTING}} : The object is created but not initialized.
{{INITIALIZING}} : Getting initialized 
{{RUNNING}} : Its up but not yet ready. This could be the case where some 
internal operations can start but no external requests should be handled.
{{READY}} : The ultimate state
{{FAILED/TERMINATED}} : failed/terminated
The distinction between {{READY-INTERNAL(RUNNING)}} and {{READY-EXTERNAL}} is 
important for HADOOP-3245.

> Add a lifecycle interface for Hadoop components: namenodes, job clients, etc.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-3628
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3628
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: dfs, mapred
>    Affects Versions: 0.19.0
>            Reporter: Steve Loughran
>            Assignee: Steve Loughran
>         Attachments: AbstractHadoopComponent.java
>
>
> I'd like to propose we have a standard interface for hadoop components, the 
> things that get started or stopped when you bring up a namenode. currently, 
> some of these classes have a stop() or shutdown() method, with no standard 
> name/interface, but no way of seeing if they are live, checking their health 
> of shutting them down reliably. Indeed, there is a tendency for the spawned 
> threads to not want to die; to require the entire process to be killed to 
> stop the workers. 
> Having a standard interface would make it easier for 
>  * management tools to manage the different things
>  * monitoring the state of things
>  * subclassing
> The latter is interesting as right now TaskTracker and JobTracker start up 
> threads in their constructor; that's very dangerous as subclasses may have 
> their methods called before they are full initialised. Adding this interface 
> would be the right time to clean up the startup process so that subclassing 
> is less risky.

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