I'd like to get feedback from the community (especially those who might remember this) on HADOOP-13410: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-13410
It appears that Hadoop's RunJar adds the original jar to the app's classpath even though the unjarred contents of the jar are in the classpath. As long as the file is a jar (or its variant), this seems completely superfluous. My suspicion is that the line of code that adds the jar to the classpath may have been left there by accident. Could anyone confirm this? Does anyone see an issue with removing the jar from the classpath? I've tested the fix with a couple of simple apps, and I didn't see a problem. Thanks, Sangjin