Since HBaseConfiguration extends Configuration, can you utilize this method from Configuration ? public void setClassLoader(ClassLoader classLoader) { Thanks On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Amit Sela wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to run an HBase client from an OSGI environment and for that I > need to set the Configuration classLoader. > In Configuration (Hadoop) itself, there is a method for that but since > HBaseConfiguration.create() is static the only solution I found was: > > Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(this.getClass().getClassLoader()); > before calling HBaseConfiguration.create() . > > Should there be HBaseConfiguration.create(ClassLoader classLoader) ? > > Thanks, > > Amit. >