On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote:
>> There's some talk about beanifying our workflow steps in >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-612, but I can't say I >> understand how this would allow us to reach the composable workflow >> goal. > > I don't think it does. It just passes data around in files like we do now. > Yes, MAHOUT-612 has beans for configuring kmeans, canopy and seq2sparse and the configuration is serialized and deserialized at the mappers and reducers. But it does not have a workflow engine or something like that. You have to connect the inputs of one job to the outputs of the other. Frank
