Just a name I believe Grant gave to easily distinguish a jar from a job. Its easier to remember than jar. Instead of "hey, use the mahout jar file to run the job". It becomes for running hadoop jobs use the job file :).
We can remove the core job, and keep just a single giant job/jar file for mahout. What say? Robin On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Jake Mannix <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought the distinction was that it's a nicely hadoop-ified jar, which > has > a "lib" subdirectory with other jars in it... > > -jake > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > That's Maven's convention I believe. I agree with you though. > > > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Jeff Zhang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks Robin, the .job file seems actually is a jar file, so why name > it > > > like that. Why not let it have another name with .jar extension? > > >
