Ah, got it. You can do one other thing to shorten the list: package your 
application into a single "assembly JAR". For SBT you can use this plugin: 
https://github.com/sbt/sbt-assembly or for Maven use this: 
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-shade-plugin/.

Matei

On Sep 4, 2013, at 10:21 AM, Gary Malouf <[email protected]> wrote:

> That's how I do it now, list is getting lengthy but we are automating the 
> retrieving of the jars and list build up in ansible.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Matei Zaharia <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> Hi Gary,
> 
> Just to be clear, if you want to use third-party libraries in Spark (or even 
> your own code), you *don't* need to modify SparkBuild.scala. Just pass a list 
> of JARs containing your dependencies when you create your SparkContext. See 
> http://spark.incubator.apache.org/docs/latest/quick-start.html for details. 
> Spark will automatically ship those JARs to worker nodes and put them on the 
> classpath for just this job.
> 
> Matei
> 
> On Sep 4, 2013, at 9:35 AM, Gary Malouf <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> To be clear, I was not referring to the Spark team rolling their own 
>> Date/Time utilities.  In general though, I strongly disagree with just 
>> adding your own personal project dependencies to SparkBuild.scala - this 
>> quickly creates confusion and maintainability issues when one looks at 
>> upgrading.  It appears we will just have to deal with ADD_JARS property for 
>> the foreseeable future.
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Mark Hamstra <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> A couple of lines to include a build dependency and import a library vs. all 
>> of the time to develop and maintain our own time-and-date code or all of the 
>> user headache of having to work-around our choice the link in a library that 
>> doesn't fit their particular needs.
>> 
>> Until there is an obvious, stable and expected-in-almost-all-cases 
>> third-party time-and-date library to chose, I strongly urge that we do not 
>> bind Spark to a particular time-and-date library.  (And there are a lot 
>> better things that we could be doing with our time than developing on our 
>> own yet another time-and-date implementation.) 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Gary Malouf <[email protected]> wrote:
>> More setup that a user needs to do to reach his functional goals.
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Mark Hamstra <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Why?  What is wrong with using the extant libraries?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Gary Malouf <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Are there any built-in functions for timezone conversions?  I can obviously 
>> bring in NScalaTime and other external libraries. However, being that this 
>> is probably a common need across companies I feel like it would make more 
>> sense to provide this out of the box.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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