Probably safe to use the deprecated apis considering https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1734
ckw On Jan 1, 2011, at 3:18 PM, Sarthak Dudhara wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to run chained jobs using Hadoop 0.20.2. I see that the class > JobControl is provided for the same purpose in 0.20.2. However, I can only > add the deprecated class > org.apache.hadoop.mapred.jobcontrol.Job. > > For using the JobControl class I need to use the older deprecated Job class > and the other deprecated classes from the mapred package e.g. JobConf, etc. > to be able to use JobControl. I am starting out developing infrastructure for > us to create jobs etc and dont want to use deprecated classes/packages > preferably. > > In Hadoop 0.21.0, I have seen there is another class ControlledJob and > JobControl in the mapreduce.lib.jobcontrol package that takes care of this. > However 0.21.0 is not production ready as mentioned on the Hadoop site. > > What is the suggested course of action in this case? I see that using > deprecated classes is the only option I see. Actualy, using deprecated > classes will cause quite a few cascading changes, so I am trying to not do > that if possible. > > Thanks > > Sarthak Dudhara > -- Chris K Wensel ch...@concurrentinc.com http://www.concurrentinc.com -- Concurrent, Inc. offers mentoring, support, and licensing for Cascading
