on the status page, I see table with columns <th class="id"> Attempt <th class="progress"> Progress <th class="state"> State <th class="status"> Status <th class="node"> Node <th class="logs"> Logs <th class="tsh"> Started <th class="tsh"> Finished <th class="tsh"> Elapsed <th class="note"> for the status field, it seems to be a free form string, with values such as "NEW" "map > map" etc.
I looked into the code in hadoop-2.5.1 and found ApplicationCLI.java , but it only prints out the ApplicationAttempState, which is the third field above "State". so how can I programatically get the value of "status" ? thanks Yang Note