Hello Joseph, you can initialize things in the plugin's setConf() method, but there is no close(). Why do you want to clear resources? The plugin's lifetime is very short for most mappers and reducers, and Hadoop will kill those JVM's anyway.
Markus -----Original message----- > From:Joseph Naegele <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday 6th May 2016 16:04 > To: [email protected] > Subject: startUp/shutDown methods for plugins > > Hi folks, > > > > I'm using Nutch 1.11. Is it possible to implement plugin instance > startUp/shutDown methods for normal extension points? This would allow for > cleaning up resources at the end of a plugin instance's lifetime. > > > > Thanks, > > Joe > >
