> Try to use fat jar. > If you are using maven, mvn assembly:single will generate the fat jar, which > includes all necessary jars in a single jar file.\
Yes, as stated in my initial post, a fat JAR works. But why doesn't adding the individual JARs work? Brian (TIA => Thanks In Advance ;^) > Regards, > Sankar S > > > On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Brian Jeltema > <brian.jelt...@digitalenvoy.net> wrote: > I've written a small UDF and placed it in a JAR (a.jar). > > The UDF has a dependency on a class in another JAR (b.jar). > > in Hive, I do: > > add jar a.jar; > add jar b.jar; > create temporary function .....; > > but when I execute the UDF, the dependency in b.jar is not found > (NoClassDefFoundError). > If I create a single JAR that contains the UDF and it's dependencies, the > function works. > Do all of the classes required for a UDF have to be supplied in a single JAR > file? > > TIA > Brian >
