It's by design. Action is presented as map-only job with fake input. Oozie packages jar and sends it to HDFS. Then this jar is launched.
2013/10/22 Praveen Sripati <[email protected]> > Hi, > > I created a simple Oozie work flow with Sqoop, Hive and Pig actions. For > each of there actions, Oozie launches a MR launcher and which in turn > launches the action (Sqoop/Hive/Pig). So, there are a total of 6 MR jobs > for 3 actions in the work flow. > > Why does Oozie start an MR launcher to start the action and not directly > start the action? > Thanks, > Praveen >
