Yeah that's what I think is the simplest: just exporting Hadoop_classpath=pig.jar:$hadoop_classpath
Hadoop jar mymainclass arg1 arg2 > On Feb 16, 2014, at 3:04 PM, Prashant Kommireddi <prash1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You could run it as a regular java application (with a main method)? You > need to have pig and Hadoop on the classpath. > >> On Sunday, February 16, 2014, Jay Vyas <jayunit...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi pig: >> >> What is the common idiom for executing a Java application which runs pig >> commands using the direct Java API (i.e. by creatiing a PigServer object, >> etc...) ? There are a few ways i can think of: >> >> 1) using "hadoop jar" , but this will of course fail since pig is not in >> the hadoop classpath. >> >> 2) using a "pig ..." command >> >> 3) Adding pig jars to the distributed cache at runtime in a standard java >> hadoop program. >> >> Not sure what is the "right" way to do it though? >> >> Thanks ! >> -- >> Jay Vyas >> http://jayunit100.blogspot.com >>