Adding your jar files in the $HADOOP_HOME/lib folder works, but you would have to restart all your tasktrackers to have your jar files loaded.
If you repackage your map-reduce jar file (e.g. hadoop-0.18.0-examples.jar) with your jar file and run your job with the newly repackaged jar file, it would work, too. On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:55 AM, Tarandeep Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks Mahadev for the reply. > So that means I have to copy my jar file in the $HADOOP_HOME/lib folder on > all slave machines like before. > > One more question- I am adding a conf file (just like HADOOP_SITE.xml) via > -conf option and I am able to query parameters in mapper/reducers. But is > there a way I can query the parameters in my job driver class - > > public class jobDriver extends Configured > { > someMethod( ) > { > ToolRunner.run( new MyJob( ), commandLineArgs); > // I want to query parameters present in my conf file here > } > } > > public class MyJob extends Configured implements Tool > { > } > > Thanks, > Taran > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Mahadev Konar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > HI Tarandeep, > > the libjars options does not add the jar on the client side. Their is an > > open jira for that ( id ont remember which one)... > > > > Oyu have to add the jar to the > > > > HADOOP_CLASSPATH on the client side so that it gets picked up on the > client > > side as well. > > > > > > mahadev > > > > > > On 10/6/08 2:30 PM, "Tarandeep Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I want to add a jar file (that is required by mappers and reducers) to > > the > > > classpath. Initially I had copied the jar file to all the slave nodes > in > > the > > > $HADOOP_HOME/lib directory and it was working fine. > > > > > > However when I tried the libjars option to add jar files - > > > > > > $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop jar myApp.jar -conf $MY_CONF_FILE -libjars > > jdom.jar > > > > > > > > > I got this error- > > > > > > java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jdom/input/SAXBuilder > > > > > > Can someone please tell me what needs to be fixed here ? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Taran > > > > >