The only thing wrong would be what is said for the DB-talking jobs as
well: Distributed mappers talking to a single point of service can
bring it down.

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Mark Kerzner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Okay,
>
> then there is nothing wrong with the mapper directly talking to the server,
> and failing the map task if the service does not work out.
>
> Thank you,
> Mark
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Harsh J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Can the mapper not directly talk to whatever application server the
>> Windows server runs? Is the work needed to be done in the map step
>> (i.e. per record)? If not, you can perhaps also consider the SSH
>> action of Oozie (although I've never tried it with a Windows machine)
>> under a workflow.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Mark Kerzner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > my Hadop cluster needs help: some tasks have to be done by a Windows
>> > server
>> > with specialized closed-source software. How do I add them to the mix?
>> > For
>> > example, I can run Tomcat, and the mapper would be calling a servlet
>> > there.
>> > Is there anything better, which would be closer to the fault-tolerant
>> > architecture of Hadoop itself?
>> >
>> > Thank you,
>> > Mark
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Harsh J
>
>

--
Harsh J

True,

and I am building a distributed scalable one -- in other words, back to the
same problem, but on this end. But what can one do?

Cheers,
Mark

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Harsh J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The only thing wrong would be what is said for the DB-talking jobs as
> well: Distributed mappers talking to a single point of service can
> bring it down.
>
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Mark Kerzner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > Okay,
> >
> > then there is nothing wrong with the mapper directly talking to the
> server,
> > and failing the map task if the service does not work out.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Mark
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Harsh J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Can the mapper not directly talk to whatever application server the
> >> Windows server runs? Is the work needed to be done in the map step
> >> (i.e. per record)? If not, you can perhaps also consider the SSH
> >> action of Oozie (although I've never tried it with a Windows machine)
> >> under a workflow.
> >>
> >> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Mark Kerzner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > my Hadop cluster needs help: some tasks have to be done by a Windows
> >> > server
> >> > with specialized closed-source software. How do I add them to the mix?
> >> > For
> >> > example, I can run Tomcat, and the mapper would be calling a servlet
> >> > there.
> >> > Is there anything better, which would be closer to the fault-tolerant
> >> > architecture of Hadoop itself?
> >> >
> >> > Thank you,
> >> > Mark
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Harsh J
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Harsh J
>