On Mar 17, 2009, at 5:53 AM, Stuart White wrote:
Yeah, I thought of that, but I was concerned that, even if it did work, if it wasn't guaranteed behavior, that it might stop working in a future release. I'll go ahead and give that a try.
No, it will continue to work. It is required for both streaming and pipes to work.
Can anybody provide details on this new API?
Sure, it is in the upcoming 0.20. I made the package org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce so that I could have the new API running in parallel with the old one. You can see the new API in subversion:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/core/trunk/src/mapred/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/ -- Owen
