Github user radekg commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/incubator-zeppelin/pull/386#issuecomment-153724695 @Leemoonsoo that is exactly the point. JVM will use first classes found on the class path. The user can do the following: export CLASSPATH_OVERRIDES=/opt/whatever/spark-core_2.10-1.5.1-patched-and-fixed.jar And then it does not matter what `org.apache.spark` classes (as long as class version matches) are further down the class path: http://stackoverflow.com/a/6644467/56250 The current mechanism does not allow hot patching anything. The only patching mechanism is recompiling Zeppelin with modified JARs, which maybe difficult / not doable. Zeppelin prepends new entries but there is no way to tell it "after all default prepends, add this at the start". And replying to your 2 comments - yes, indeed :)
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