All, I would like to gauge the what the level of interest might be in having a version of the Hadoop client running as an OSGi bundle. I for one would like to use such a thing. There have been inquiries as to putting the whole Hadoop shooting match in OSGi. I'm talking here about just the client.
Some one has done what I'm talking about. You can check out Jean-Baptiste Onofre Blog<http://blog.nanthrax.net/2013/07/apache-hadoop-and-karaf-article-1-karaf-as-hdfs-client/>. But said effort was done for Hadoop 3.0 and I need something for 2.3.0, Nevertheless, I was able to draw inspiration from JB's good effort. My need is sufficiently great that I could be persuaded to take the task on. What is the level of interest? Does anyone else share my need? -- There are ways and there are ways, Geoffry Roberts
