Hi all,

currently, we try to upgrade from hadoop-0.19 to hadoop-0.20. Therefore,
we try to get rid of the deprecated JobConf class and switch to
org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job where possible.
In several projects we have chained jobs which depend on each other. For
these, we used the Job and JobControl classes of the
org.apache.hadoop.mapred.jobcontrol package which rely on the deprecated
  JobConf class.
How does chaining of dependent jobs work with hadoop-0.20+? Do we still
have to use the org.apache.hadoop.mapred.jobcontrol package or is there
a better way using only the org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job class?
Is there a plan to move org.apache.hadoop.mapred.jobcontrol to a package
org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.jobcontrol in the future?

Regards,
Thomas

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Hi Thomas,

The job control feature has been ported to the new MapReduce API in
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-368. This will be in
0.21 I think.

Cheers,
Tom

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Thomas Thevis<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> currently, we try to upgrade from hadoop-0.19 to hadoop-0.20. Therefore, we
> try to get rid of the deprecated JobConf class and switch to
> org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job where possible.
> In several projects we have chained jobs which depend on each other. For
> these, we used the Job and JobControl classes of the
> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.jobcontrol package which rely on the deprecated
>  JobConf class.
> How does chaining of dependent jobs work with hadoop-0.20+? Do we still have
> to use the org.apache.hadoop.mapred.jobcontrol package or is there a better
> way using only the org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job class?
> Is there a plan to move org.apache.hadoop.mapred.jobcontrol to a package
> org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.jobcontrol in the future?
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
> --
> Thomas Thevis
> Software Developer
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> vionto GmbH
> Karl-Marx-Allee 90a, D-10243 Berlin
>
> fon   +49 30 40 20 3 29 - 28
> fax   +49 30 40 20 3 29 - 29
> web   http://www.vionto.com
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Geschäftsführer: Ralf von Grafenstein, Dr. Martin C. Hirsch
> Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin
> Amtsgericht Berlin Charlottenburg, HRB 108054B
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>