Hi I am new to MapReduce and Hadoop, and I have managed to find my way through with a few programs. But I still have some doubts that are constantly clinging onto me. I am not too sure whether these are basic doubts, or just some documentation that I missed somewhere.
1) Should my input _always_ be text files? What if my input is in the form of Java objects? Where do I handle this conversion? 2) How do I control how the output is written? For example, if I want to output in a format that is my own, how do I do it? Thanks, Sridhar
