Github user aarondav commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/973#issuecomment-46134266
I added a Java API. However, I think everything would be much cleaner if we
could change the return type of hadoopRDD/hadoopFile to be HadoopRDD. This
would break binary compatibility and require widening the visibility of
HadoopRDD out of DeveloperApi, though.
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