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+# YARN DIRECTORY LAYOUT
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+Hadoop Yarn related code are organized 
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+Hadoop Yarn related codes are organized in separate modules with layered dependency.
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+ * common : Common codes that will be called into by other modules.
+
+ * 2.0 / 2.2 : Codes that involve specific version of Hadoop YARN API. Depends on common module.
+
+  2.0 actually represents  0.23 and 2.0
+  2.2 actually represents 2.2 and later, until the API is break again.
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+ * Scheduler : Implementation of various YARN Scheduler and backend. Depends on 2.0 / 2.2 modules.
+ * Assembly : For maven build to assembly all other modules in Yarn into one single jar.
+