The jar files placement outside of lib directory is to ensure the project generated jar files are not mixed with it's dependencies. Hence, if another project tries to import current project's jar files without dependencies, it is possible to do so.
regards, Eric On Aug 4, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Alejandro Abdelnur wrote: > What is the rationale for having the hadoop JARs outside of the lib/ > directory? > > It would definitely simplify packaging configuration if they are under lib/ > as well. > > Any objection to it? > > Thanks. > > Alejandro
