I guess you are referring to http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#client_dependencies ?
The thing is by default hbase.zookeeper.quorum is localhost, so your client will look at your local machine to find HBase if you don't configure anything. J-D On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Vimal Jain <vkj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I am newbie to both Hadoop and Hbase technologies. > I have setup Hbase properly in Standalone mode. > I am unable to understand work flow when a client (Java program accessing > Hbase) connects to Hbase Server. > Documentations and Books say that the client should have hbase-site.xml in > its classpath or i should provide zookeeper information explicitly in the > configuration object.I am not doing either but still my program correctly > connects to Hbase server and saves data. How its happening ? > > > -- > Thanks and Regards, > Vimal Jain
