One way to do that is to store your words in a DFS file. In the configure method of your mapper class, you can read the words in from the file and use them. You can use JobConf to pass the file name to the mapper.
Runping > -----Original Message----- > From: Ilya Vishnevsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 8:13 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Global information in MapReduce > > Hello! My question is about mapreduce. Is it possible to pass to the map > function some global information? For example I have a set of words and > a large set of documents. I want the map function to get each document > as value and emit pairs (word-frequency) for each word in the set, where > "frequency" is frequency of this word in the document. To do this I need > map function to have access to the set of words each time it runs. Is it > possible to do that?
