Getting Started

Cascading is nothing more than a Java library that should be included in both your development and runtime CLASSPATH.

When executing Cascading as a Hadoop job, the Cascading jar (cascading-lib-x.y.z.jar) file should be added to the job jar 'lib' directory along with all cascadings dependent jar files. Alternately cascading-x.y.z.jar can be unpacked into a directory containing your class files, and then packed back up as it already includes the 'lib' directory.

Each of the available examples includes a generalized Ant build script that can be used as a starting point for most any Cascading project. The alternatively, you can get a sample build file directly from svn: build.sample.xml.