<rel> is short for the hadoop version you are using 0.18.x, 0.19.x or 0.20.x etc You must make all of the required jars available to all of your tasks. You can either install them all the tasktracker machines and setup the tasktracker classpath to include them, or distributed them via the distributed cache.
chapter 5 of my book goes into this in some detail, and is available now as a download. http://www.apress.com/book/view/9781430219422 On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 4:22 PM, georgep <p09...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Sorry, I misspell you name, Jason > > George > > georgep wrote: > > > > Hi Joe, > > > > Thank you for the reply, but do I need to include every supporting jar > > file to the application path? What is the -<rel>-? > > > > George > > > > > > jason hadoop wrote: > >> > >> 1) when running under windows, include the cygwin bin directory in your > >> windows path environment variable > >> 2) eclipse is not so good at submitting supporting jar files, in your > >> application lauch path add a -libjars path/hadoop-<rel>-examples.jar. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Alpha Chapters of my book on Hadoop are available > >> http://www.apress.com/book/view/9781430219422 > >> www.prohadoopbook.com a community for Hadoop Professionals > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/ClassNotFoundException-tp23441528p23455206.html > Sent from the Hadoop core-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- Alpha Chapters of my book on Hadoop are available http://www.apress.com/book/view/9781430219422 www.prohadoopbook.com a community for Hadoop Professionals