How to add third party java jars for use in pyspark

Question

I have some third party Database client libraries in Java. I want to access them through

java_gateway.py

E.g: to make the client class (not

Answer 1

Apart from the accepted answer, you also have below options:

1. if you are in virtual environment then you can place it in

   e.g. lib/python3.7/site-packages/pyspark/jars

2. if you want java to discover it then you can place where your jre is installed under ext/ directory