Hi Balu, Unfortunately, DistCp does not have a public Java API. One simple way is to invoke DistCp.main(args) in your java program, where args is an array of the string arguments you would pass in the command line.
Hope this helps. Nicholas Sze ----- Original Message ---- > From: Balu Vellanki <balusm...@gmail.com> > To: "common-user@hadoop.apache.org" <common-user@hadoop.apache.org> > Sent: Wed, February 17, 2010 5:43:11 PM > Subject: JavaDocs for DistCp (or similar) > > Hi Folks > > Currently we use distCp to transfer files between two hadoop clusters. I > have a perl script which calls a system command “hadoop distcp....” to > achieve this. > > Is there a Java Api to do distCp, so that we can avoid system calls from our > java code? > > Thanks > Balu
