[SPARK-594] Update examples to pass JARs when building a SparkContext in 0.6 and master

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.7.0
• Assignee: Matei Alexandru Zaharia
• Reporter: Matei Alexandru Zaharia
• Created: 24/Oct/12 21:54
• Updated: 25/Feb/13 20:30
• Resolved: 25/Feb/13 20:30

Description

The "right" way to create a SparkContext is to pass a list of JARs and a sparkHome to the constructor, but our examples still use the older 2-parameter constructor that doesn't take these parameters, and rely on the spark.examples code being present on every worker node's classpath. For some reason a commit fixing this was in branch 0.5 but never made it into 0.6 and master.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: SPARK-612 Update examples to pass JAR file to SparkContext in master and 0.6 branches