So I\'ve been using sbt with assembly to package all my dependencies into a single jar for my spark jobs. I\'ve got several jobs where I was using c3p0 to setu
c3p0
I add the jar file to the SPARK_CLASSPATH in spark-env.sh, it works.
export SPARK_CLASSPATH=$SPARK_CLASSPATH:/local/spark-1.6.3-bin-hadoop2.6/lib/mysql-connector-java-5.1.40-bin.jar