Mike,
The mapred.* API has been undeprecated and continues to be the stable
API. In 1.0.0, the new API is/was unfinished and lacks a lot of ports
from the mapred.lib.* components. This is being addressed by
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-3607 if you are
interested in backporting a
Having looked at a few releases of Hadoop, I am surprised to find that in
most of them the CompositeInputFormat class is in mapred but not
mapreduce. While there is a CompositeInputFormat under mapreduce in
release 0.21.0, there is no CompositeInputFormat under mapreduce in
release 1.0.0. Why