Sorry, what’s the full context for this? Do you have a stack trace? My guess is 
that Spark isn’t on your classpath, or maybe you only have an old version of it 
on there.

Matei

On Nov 27, 2013, at 6:04 PM, Walrus theCat <[email protected]> wrote:

> To clarify, I just undid that "var... field.." thing described above, and it 
> throws the same error.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Walrus theCat <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This exception gets thrown when I assign a value to the variable holding my 
> SparkContext.  I initialize it as a var holding a null value (so it can be a 
> field), and then give it a value in my main method.  This worked with the 
> previous version of Spark, but is not working on Spark 0.8.0.
> 
> Dankeschöen,
> 
> Walrus theCat
> 

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