Hi, I am aware of Eclipse plugin for Hadoop, although I have never used it myself. I just looked into its code and I also remember one recent email mentioning that it may not oprate perfectly with the latest Hadoop trunk API. I have been developing Swing (and also NetBeans platform) applications for some time now but I have no experience with SWT (Eclipse RCP) thus I can not compare these two worlds directly. All I know is: 1) there can be found a lot about SWT vs Swing on the web 2) Swing as well as NetBeans plaform is progressing like crazy with every new release 3) my friends programming SWT were telling me horrible stories 4) my view may be stronlgy biased because I am from the Czech Republic (check the NetBeans history <http://www.netbeans.org/about/history.html> to understand the point :-)
Putting aside SWT sv Swing debate the most important thing is if you can see any benefits in Mahout GUI at all. Can you see anything what it could/should address? If the answer is yes then I would love to hear that. I was thinking that it may be interesting for the users to allow them to put together their own flow of various MR jobs in an visual fashion but I am not sure that this would be really useful now (though it would be impressive). May be it would be useful to create a wiki page for the Mahout GUI to see if we can collect enough interesting ideas/proposals/requests. Regards, Lukas ==================== Note: I have been debating this with my colleagues(*) a lot and it seems that Lukas' is a valid form of Lukas's and in most cases they prefer the former form :-) (*) most of them were Americans so their sense for grammar can differ from Englishmen ==================== On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Otis Gospodnetic < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I started reading Lukáš's (heh) email I also immediately started > thinking "Eclipse Hadoop plugin". So, Lukáš, that may be the fastest way to > get started, if that's what you are looking for. > > Otis > -- > Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Richard Tomsett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 9:53:36 AM > > Subject: Re: Mahout GUI [was Re: Input format [Re: Taste Vs Weka]] > > > > Lukáš Vlček wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Speaking about Mahout GUI how useful do you see it would be? > > > > > > I don't have direct experience with WEKA or similar tool GUIs but do > you > > > think that wrapping Mahout into kind of plugin for them would be easy > and > > > straightdorward? More specifically, the part of running Mahout jobs > deals > > > with managing Hadoop and/or HDFS a lot I think. This makes me think > that a > > > good GUI for Mahout would always reguire a little bit more then just > simple > > > load data file, run algorithm(s) and view/visualize results. It should > > > include tools for managing, setting and monitoring Hadoop, HDFS ... > etc. Do > > > you agree? Or is there already anything like this included in WEKA or > Yale? > > > > > I don't think there's anything like that in WEKA, though as it's all > > Java it should be do-able. I like the way the Eclipse Hadoop plug-in > > works regarding connecting to Hadoop, monitoring job progress and > > viewing the filesystem, it makes things pretty straightforward, so that > > kind of functionality built into the pre-existing GUI of something like > > WEKA might be nice. I suppose though that if you had a Mahout plug-in > > for something like WEKA, it would be expected just to make the suite of > > algorithms available in WEKA work on Hadoop rather than (or as well as) > > providing a different set of algorithms. > > > > A GUI could be nice and would definitely help with playing around with > > Mahout without much effort. > > -- http://blog.lukas-vlcek.com/
