On May 9, 2011, at 10:53am, Dmitriy Lyubimov wrote: > Ok then i am missing some fundamental knowledge here about the 'job > jar'. It's probably a lame question, but i'll try to ask it anyway. > What is a "job jar"? Is it a java spec or hadoop spec?
It's a Hadoop thing. -- Ken > > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Jake Mannix <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Benson Margulies <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> It is activated by calling the 'setJar' API in the job conf, passing >>>> the name of the jar that contains the lib folder. >>> >>> Just for my education, are you saying you can pass in the entire lib >>> folder to the setJar() thing? i wasn't aware of this, the javadoc for >>> this method doesn't imply that. >>> >> >> No, he's just saying pass in the name of the jar which happens to have >> a lib directory in it (the "job" jar). >> >> -jake >> -------------------------- Ken Krugler +1 530-210-6378 http://bixolabs.com e l a s t i c w e b m i n i n g
