No, they do not implement Serializable. There are a couple of places where I've had to do a Text->String conversion but generally it hasn't been a problem. -Russ
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Steve Lewis <lordjoe2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Do your custom Writable classes implement Serializable - I think that is > the only real issue - my code uses vanilla Text > >