[HADOOP-366] Should be able to specify more than one jar into a JobConf file

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.4.0
• Assignee: Owen O'Malley
• Reporter: Thomas Friol
• Created: 17/Jul/06 12:13
• Updated: 08/Jul/09 16:51
• Resolved: 24/Jul/07 07:46

Description

A job should be able to specify more than one jar file into its JobConf file because sometimes custom Map and Reduce classes or just InputFormat classes uses objects coming from other jar files. For now, we have to build a unique jar to make Hadoop mapreduce operations works.

Issue Links

• duplicates: HADOOP-1622 Hadoop should provide a way to allow the user to specify jar file(s) the user job depends on