New hadoop api present in 0.20.1 especially package org.apache.hadoop. mapredude.lib is not used
code affected is both consumer and producer in kafka in the contrib package [amilkowski@localhost contrib]$ pwd /opt/local/git/kafka/contrib [amilkowski@localhost contrib]$ ls -lt total 12 drwxrwxr-x 8 amilkowski amilkowski 4096 May 30 11:14 hadoop-consumer drwxrwxr-x 6 amilkowski amilkowski 4096 May 29 19:31 hadoop-producer drwxrwxr-x 6 amilkowski amilkowski 4096 May 29 16:43 target [amilkowski@localhost contrib]$ in example import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient; import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf; import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.RunningJob; import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TextOutputFormat; use 0.19.2 hadoop api format, this prevents merging of hadoop feature into more modern hadoop implementation instead of drawing from 0.20.1 api set in import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce submitting jira feature request -A