On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 7:11 PM, yh18190 wrote:
> Is it always needed that sparkcontext object be created in Main method of
> class.Is it necessary?Can we create "sc" object in other class and try to
> use it by passing this object through function and use it?
>
The Spark context can be initialized wherever you like and passed around
just as any other object. Just don't try to create multiple contexts
against "local" (without stopping the previous one first), or you may get
ArrayStoreExceptions (I learned that one the hard way).
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