Hi guys. Just a theoretical question here : I notice in chapter 1 of the
Hadoop orielly book that the new API example has *no* Configuration object.
Why is that?
I thought the new API still uses / needs a Configuration class when running
jobs.
Jay Vyas
MMSB
UCHC
On Apr 7, 2012, at 4:29
The Job class encapsulates the Configuration object and manages it for
you. You can also get its reference out via Job.getConfiguration() -
http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/JobContext.html#getConfiguration()
Hence, when you do a: Job job = new Job();,
