Setting Hadoop in Eclipse / Eclipse plugin for Hadoop

Step1: Download the following Jar file:

https://github.com/Ravi-Shekhar/hadoop-eclipse-plugin/blob/master/release/hadoop-eclipse-plugin-2.6.0.jar

Step 2: Install jar file. Simply copy the jar file in eclipse plugins folder Ex: /eclipse/plugins. Then Restart the eclipse.

Step 3: Switch to the MapReduce perspective. In the upper-right corner of the workbench, click the “Open Perspective” button, as shown in Figure 3.4:

Select “Other,” followed by “Map/Reduce” in the window that opens up. At first, nothing may appear to change. In the menu, choose Window * Show View * Other. Under “MapReduce Tools,” select “Map/Reduce Locations.” This should make a new panel visible at the bottom of the screen, next to Problems and Tasks.

Step 4: Add the Server. In the Map/Reduce Locations panel, click on the elephant logo in the upper-right corner to add a new server to Eclipse.

You will now be asked to fill in a number of parameters identifying the server. To connect to the VMware image, the values are:

When you are done, click “Finish.” Your server will now appear in the Map/Reduce Locations panel. If you look in the Project Explorer (upper-left corner of Eclipse), you will see that the MapReduce plugin has added the ability to browse HDFS. Click the [+] buttons to expand the directory tree to see any files already there. If you inserted files into HDFS yourself, they will be visible in this tree.

Figure 4: Files Visible in the HDFS Viewer

Now that your system is configured, the following sections will introduce you to the basic features and verify that they work correctly.