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Hadoop: The Definitive Guide (3rd Ed) error with MaxTemperature example

In the book Hadoop: The Definitive Guide (3rd Ed), there is an error in Chapter 2 MapReduce (the error is also in the ePub and PDF versions).  The book shows setting HADOOP_CLASSPATH=hadoop-examples.jar, however this JAR file does not exist.  The Ant build.xml creates a job.jar file which contains all of the examples included in the book.  Setting HADOOP_CLASSPATH=job.jar fixes this problem and allows the example to work properly. The error you will get if you have the HADOOP_CLASSPATH set incorrectly (as specified in the book) will be:

# hadoop MaxTemperature input/ncdc/sample.txt output

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: MaxTemperature

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: MaxTemperature

        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217)

        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321)

        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294)

        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266)

Could not find the main class: MaxTemperature. Program will exit.

I have submitted this correction to be included in the Errata and hopefully it will be reflected on the books website soon.

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