GitHub user ahirreddy opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/incubator-spark/pull/622
Allow PySpark to use existing JVM and Gateway Patch to allow PySpark to use existing JVM and Gateway. Changes to PySpark implementation of SparkConf to take existing SparkConf JVM handle. Change to PySpark SparkContext to allow subclass specific context initialization. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/ahirreddy/incubator-spark pyspark-existing-jvm Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/incubator-spark/pull/622.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #622 ---- commit a86f45721c7f009adb3fc7070d3641569e999ffd Author: Ahir Reddy <ahirre...@gmail.com> Date: 2014-02-20T22:13:40Z Patch to allow PySpark to use existing JVM and Gateway. Changes to PySpark implementation of SparkConf to take existing SparkConf JVM handle. Change to PySpark SparkContext to allow subclass specific context initialization. ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. To do so, please top-post your response. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---