Any java process that can access the machines in the cluster can start a job.
That means that any thread in the tomcat in, say, a servlet could start a job. This would be no different than any of the standard examples such as word count. On 11/23/07 2:43 AM, "Eugeny N Dzhurinsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 01:51:56PM -0800, Ted Dunning wrote: >> >> Just start the cluster once and start tomcat once. >> >> Then you can launch all the hadoop jobs you like without ever stopping the >> cluster. > > As far as I understood there would be 2 JVM - one for Tomcat and another one > for Hadoop. The question is - how can I get access to a Hadoop to > start/monitor > jobs?