Never mind, the problem is that JAVA is not installed on windows. I install JAVA and the problem go away.
Regards, Ningjun Wang Consulting Software Engineer LexisNexis 121 Chanlon Road New Providence, NJ 07974-1541 From: Wang, Ningjun (LNG-NPV) [mailto:ningjun.w...@lexisnexis.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 4:38 PM To: user@spark.apache.org Subject: How to start spark master on windows I download spark 1.2.0 on my windows server 2008. How do I start spark master? I tried to run the following on command prompt C:\spark-1.2.0-bin-hadoop2.4> bin\spark-class.cmd org.apache.spark.deploy.master.Master I got the error else was unexpected at this time. Ningjun