Apparently Spark does require Hadoop even if you do not intend to use Hadoop. Is there a workaround for the below error I get when creating the SparkContext in Scala? I will note that I didn't have this problem yesterday when creating the Spark context in Java as part of the getting started App. It could be because I was using Maven project to manage dependencies and that did something for me or else JavaSparkContext has some different code. I would say, in order for Spark to be general purpose this is a pretty big bug since now it appears Spark depends upon Hadoop. "Could not locate executable null\bin\winutils.exe in the Hadoop binaries"
