Ok then i am missing some fundamental knowledge here about the 'job jar'. It's probably a lame question, but i'll try to ask it anyway. What is a "job jar"? Is it a java spec or hadoop spec?
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Jake Mannix <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Benson Margulies <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > It is activated by calling the 'setJar' API in the job conf, passing >> > the name of the jar that contains the lib folder. >> >> Just for my education, are you saying you can pass in the entire lib >> folder to the setJar() thing? i wasn't aware of this, the javadoc for >> this method doesn't imply that. >> > > No, he's just saying pass in the name of the jar which happens to have > a lib directory in it (the "job" jar). > > -jake >
