beginner question about setting user defined variables in partition function

[Sandy]

Hi,

I am still relatively a beginner at java and hadoop. I am trying to do set a
user-defined variable in my own partition function, which I define in a file
called myPartitioner.java. The structure of the code is below:

----
package mypackage;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.IntWritable;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Partitioner;
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configured;

public class myPartitioner extends Configured implements
Partitioner<IntWritable, IntWritable> {

    private int T;

    public void configure(JobConf job) {
    super.configure(job);
    String myT = job.get("tval");
    T = Integer.parseInt(myT);
    }

    public int getPartition(IntWritable key, IntWritable value, int
numPartitions) {
    ...
    }
}

When I try to compile, I get the following error pointing to the line
super.configure(job):
myPartitioner.java: cannot find symbol
    [javac] symbol  : method configure(org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf)
    [javac] location: class org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configured
    [javac]     super.configure(job);
    [javac]             ^
    [javac] 1 error

In my regular M/R program I use the public void configure(JobConf) function
like this liberally. I'm thinking I am missing importing some class
somewhere, but I am not sure which. Could someone please point me in the
right direction? This is hadoop-0.19.0.

Thanks in advance.

-SM