Arkady Borkovsky wrote:
using "Line" in class names stresses the use of these classes for Streaming.
The new classes in question are not a part of streaming, but are being added to the mapred package.
Unix commands invoked by Streaming operate on lines, not on Text.Understanding what "Text" means requires knowing internals of Hadoop, while "line" is used here in its common meaning.
These new classes are part of the internals of Hadoop. Doug
