hadoop java.net.URISyntaxException: Relative path in absolute URI: rsrc:hbase-common-0.98.1-hadoop2.jar

The exception is a bit misleading; there’s no real relative path being parsed, the issue here is that Hadoop “Path” doesn’t support ‘:’ in filenames. In your case, “rsrc:hbase-common-0.98.1-hadoop2.jar” is being interpreted as “rsrc” being the “scheme”, whereas I suspect you really intended to add the resource file:///path/to/your/jarfile/rsrc:hbase-common-0.98.1-hadoop2.jar”. Here’s an old JIRA discussing the illegal … Read more