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
>

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