Hey Edward, The Thrift interface to HDFS allows clients to be developed in any Thrift-supported language: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HDFS-APIs.
Regards, Jeff On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Edward Capriolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of my first questions about hadoop was, "How do systems outside > the cluster interact with the file system?" I read several documents > that described streaming data into hadoop for processing, but I had > trouble finding examples. > > The goal of LHadoop Server (L stands for Lightweight) is to produce a > VERY simple interface to allow streaming READ and WRITE access to > hadoop. The client side of the connection interacts using a simple > text based protocol. Any type of client, perl,c++, telnet, can > interact with hadoop. There is no need to have Java on the client. > > The protocol works like this: > > bash-3.2# nc localhost 9090 > AUTH ecapriolo password > server>>OK:AUTH > READ /letsgo > server>>OK. > OMG. > Is this going to work > Lets see > ^C > > Site: > http://www.jointhegrid.com/jtgweb/lhadoopserver/ > SVN: > http://www.jointhegrid.com/jtgwebrepo/jtglhadoopserver > > I know several other methods exist to get access to a hadoop including > Fuse. Again, I could not find anyone doing something like this. Does > anyone have any ideas or think this is useful? > > Thank you, >
