maven - Is it possible to run Hadoop jobs (like the WordCount sample) in the local mode on Windows without Cygwin?

Question

I have Windows 7, Java 8, Maven and Eclipse. I've created a Maven project and used almost exactly the same code as here.

It's just a simple "word count" sample. I try to launch the "driver" program from Eclipse, I provide command line arguments (the input file and the output directory) and get the following error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException   at
java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1012)    at
org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.runCommand(Shell.java:404)     at
org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.run(Shell.java:379)    at
org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell$ShellCommandExecutor.execute(Shell.java:589) at
org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.execCommand(Shell.java:678)    at
org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.execCommand(Shell.java:661)    at
org.apache.hadoop.fs.RawLocalFileSystem.setPermission(RawLocalFileSystem.java:639) at
org.apache.hadoop.fs.RawLocalFileSystem.mkdirs(RawLocalFileSystem.java:435) at
org.apache.hadoop.fs.FilterFileSystem.mkdirs(FilterFileSystem.java:277) at
org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.JobSubmissionFiles.getStagingDir(JobSubmissionFiles.java:125) at
org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.JobSubmitter.submitJobInternal(JobSubmitter.java:344) at
org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job$10.run(Job.java:1268)   at
org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job$10.run(Job.java:1265)   at
java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)  at
javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:422)  at
org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1491) at
org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job.submit(Job.java:1265)   at
org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job.waitForCompletion(Job.java:1286)    at
misc.projects.hadoop.exercises.WordCountDriverApp.main(WordCountDriverApp.java:29)

The failing line (WordCountDriverApp.java:29) contains the command to launch the job:

job.waitForCompletion(true)

I want to make it work and therefore I want to understand something:

Do I have to provide any hdfs-site.xml, yarn-site.xml, ... all this, if I want just the local mode (without any cluster)? I don't have these XML config files now. As far as I remember, the defaults are all OK for the local mode, maybe I am wrong.

Is it possible at all under Windows (to launch any Hadoop jobs whatsoever) or the whole Hadoop thing is Linux-only?

P.S.: The Hadoop dependency is the following:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
    <artifactId>hadoop-client</artifactId>
    <version>2.2.0</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

Answer 1

1. Download Hadoop 2.6.0 or 2.7.1 compiled for Windows
2. Create HADOOP_HOME environment variable pointing to the unzipped dir
3. Add %HADOOP_HOME%in to PATH env var

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/27394808/543836