Thanks...this works beautifully :) ! Deepika
-----Original Message----- From: Owen O'Malley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 7:52 AM To: core-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: Cannot read reducer values into a list On Aug 19, 2008, at 4:57 PM, Deepika Khera wrote: > Thanks for the clarification on this. > > So, it seems like cloning the object before adding to the list is the > only solution for this problem. Is that right? Yes. You can use WritableUtils.clone to do the job. -- Owen