Kim, Yes.
See the discussion at http://search-hadoop.com/m/jzO0k18XoNW1 On 19-Nov-2011, at 12:43 AM, Kim Ebert wrote: > I was wondering if a context.write is possible in the cleanup of a Mapper. > > For example, if the map function queues the item in an external process, and > then in the cleanup phase all the results from the external process are > mapped. > > From looking at how the map reduce process works, I would think this is > possible. > > Thanks, > > Kim