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Dennis Kubes commented on HADOOP-1622: -------------------------------------- I hadn't thought about it that way and yes it does go against java classloader semantics. I will make the changes to make it consistent with normal classpath behavior . I will also make the other changes mentioned above. My intention here was really to allow custom development without changing standard jars, but yes that can be handled by semanics that we define. What would be a good way to do this, something like a addPriorityJar() method in JobConf? Currently setJar will take priority over addJar and addJars. > Hadoop should provide a way to allow the user to specify jar file(s) the user > job depends on > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-1622 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1622 > Project: Hadoop > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Runping Qi > Attachments: multipleJobJars.patch > > > More likely than not, a user's job may depend on multiple jars. > Right now, when submitting a job through bin/hadoop, there is no way for the > user to specify that. > A walk around for that is to re-package all the dependent jars into a new jar > or put the dependent jar files in the lib dir of the new jar. > This walk around causes unnecessary inconvenience to the user. Furthermore, > if the user does not own the main function > (like the case when the user uses Aggregate, or datajoin, streaming), the > user has to re-package those system jar files too. > It is much desired that hadoop provides a clean and simple way for the user > to specify a list of dependent jar files at the time > of job submission. Someting like: > bin/hadoop .... --depending_jars j1.jar:j2.jar -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.