Well, I tried saving the OutputCollectors in an instance variable and writing to them during close and it seems to work.
Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Eastman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 4:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Best Practice? Thanks Aaron, I missed that one. Now I have my configuration information in my mapper. In the mapper, I'm computing cluster centroids by reading all the input points and assigning them to clusters. I don't actually store the points in the mapper, just the evolving centroids. I'm trying to wait until close() to output the cluster centroids to the reducer, but the OutputCollector is not available. Is there a way to do this, or do I need to backtrack? Jeff
