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Changing JAVA_HOME on a HDP 1.1 Hadoop on Windows Setup

We were setting up a small cluster of  Hadoop for some requirements, and decided to go with the HortonWorks release of Hadoop. ( HDP 1.1 for Windows ). After installing, we realized that for some reason the Oozie service was not starting up . (we tried both the CLI command provided with the HDP installation, as well as trying to manually start the service via services.msc). Looking through the log files (<HDP 1.1 installation path>\oozie-<version>\Service directory, specifically the oozieservice.out.log file) we found the error -    and so realized that Oozie server is dependent on JDK. It does not work with only JRE. To correct this we uninstalled JRE, and installed JDK. We also manually modified the JAVA_HOME environment variable to point to the new installation path. And then Oozie server started working all fine. But all the rest of the services (hadoop jobtracker, hadoop datanode etc.) stopped starting. Checking the logs of the services, we fou...
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And my world stops rotating

I enjoyed using the site…. pity I will not be using it anymore. Just read about what happened, after my friend told me. And did he have that stupid grin on his face (the one which says “I told you so”). Had painstakingly collected all those links… and many of them related to the “language for the passionate” (JavaScript).     …………… I don’t even have a backup in an OPML file.   It will not be easy getting back all those links :’(   This is the worst week of my life!!!!!!!     This post relates to the current home page at http://ma.gnolia.com/  
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A neat quote

"We are all subjects to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not," said the witch, "or die of despair".                                                                  -- An excellent snip from the book "Northern Lights" by Philip Pullman
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