Hi, My topology jar with all the dependencies is going to be a huge one,so I am bit hesitant to deploy it using storm. Best thing would have been if I could put all the dependent third party jars to some shared mount that is shared across all the machines in my cluster. Thanks Bijoy On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:45 PM, P. Taylor Goetz wrote: > Bijoy, > > Out of curiosity, why can't you bundle your dependencies with the topology > jar? > > If you have to then you can put your topology dependencies in > $STORM_HOME/lib, but you should be careful with replacing Storm's core > dependencies since it could lead to unpredictable results. > > - Taylor > > On Feb 7, 2014, at 8:48 AM, bijoy deb wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Is there any way to add a specific directory to the Storm classpath > rather than copying the required jars to Storm lib directory.For > me,bundling the required jars with the actual topology jar is not an option? > > > > Can I add a directory (of jars) into the Storm lib rather than copying > the actual jar files there? > > > > > > Thanks > > Bijoy > >