[FLUME-2423] Load flume plugin jars from HDFS

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Assignee: Johny Rufus
• Reporter: Viji
• Created: 16/Jul/14 06:42
• Updated: 01/Mar/15 13:54

Description

Currently, the plugins are loaded from local dirs, but it would be better if they can also be loaded from a provided HDFS URI as that would make for much easier deployments of plugins.

HBase does a similar thing today with its DynamicClassLoader override.