Hello Udit, Yes, what you ask is possible. If you follow the Spark documentation and tutorial about how to build stand-alone applications, you can see that it is possible to build a stand-alone, über-JAR file that includes everything.
For example, if you want to suppress some messages by modifying log4j in unit tests, you can do the following: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27248997/how-to-suppress-spark-logging-in-unit-tests/27360000#27360000 Hope this helps. -- Emre Sevinç http://www.bigindustries.be/ On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Udit Mehta <ume...@groupon.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > Is it possible to put the log4j.properties in the application jar such > that the driver and the executors use this log4j file. Do I need to specify > anything while submitting my app so that this file is used? > > Thanks, > Udit > -- Emre Sevinc