[HADOOP-6894] Common foundation for Hadoop client tools

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Assignee: Owen O'Malley
• Reporter: Alejandro Abdelnur
• Created: 02/Aug/10 07:23
• Updated: 30/Jul/14 23:18
• Resolved: 30/Jul/14 23:18

Description

As Hadoop widespreads and matures the number of tools and utilities for users keeps growing.

Some of them are bundled with Hadoop core, some with Hadoop contrib, some on their own, some are full fledged servers on their own. For example, just to name a few: distcp, streaming, pipes, har, pig, hive, oozie.

Today there is no standard mechanism for making these tools available to users. Neither there is a standard mechanism for these tools to integrate and distributed them with each other.

The lack of a common foundation creates issues for developers and users.

Issue Links

• incorporates: MAPREDUCE-2265 task-controller and jsvc should install into sbin/<platform>/ directory
• relates to: BIGTOP-276 Standardize how clients create classpaths and java.library.paths
• relates to: HADOOP-6255 Create an rpm integration project