org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration does not exist in hadoop-core.jar

Question

I am writing an HBase client in Java. The first line, of coz, looks like this:

import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;

I am using Cloudera CDH4.3.1, so

Answer 1

Add hadoop-common to your pom.xml

<dependency>                                                                                                                                       
    <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>                                                                                                           
    <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>                                                                                                         
    <version>2.0.0-cdh4.3.1</version>                                                                                            
</dependency>