Running your Driver class from Eclipse should automatically run it in the local runner mode (as thats the default mode).
You shouldn't need a local Hadoop install for this. On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Radhe Radhe <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm trying to get some hands-on on the Map Reduce programming. > > I downloaded the code examples from Hadoop-The definitive guide, 3rd edition > and build it using Maven: > mvn package -DskipTests -Dhadoop.distro=apache-2 > > Next I imported the maven projects into Eclipse. Using Eclipse now I can > develop my own Map Reduce jobs. > Bu how do I test\run the job locally using the "Local Job Runner"? > > The book excerpt says: > Now we can run this application against some local files. Hadoop comes with > a local > job runner, a cut-down version of the MapReduce execution engine for running > Map- > Reduce jobs in a single JVM. It's designed for testing, and is very > convenient for use in > an IDE, since you can run it in a debugger to step through the code in your > mapper and > reducer. > > Do I also need to install Hadoop locally on Windows for that? > > Thanks, > -RR -- Harsh J
