Spark REPL gives an error when starting - apache-spark

Question

I got pre-built Spark 1.4.1 and I'm running HDP 2.6. when I run spark-shell it gives me an error message as follows. Is this because I'm missing a jar file ?
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/ws/rs/WebApplicationException
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:800)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:449)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:71)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
at org.apache.spark.ui.SparkUI.<init>(SparkUI.scala:37)
at org.apache.spark.ui.SparkUI$.create(SparkUI.scala:190)
at org.apache.spark.ui.SparkUI$.createLiveUI(SparkUI.scala:141)
at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.<init>(SparkContext.scala:440)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop.createSparkContext(SparkILoop.scala:1017)
at $iwC$$iwC.<init>(<console>:9)
at $iwC.<init>(<console>:18)
at <init>(<console>:20)
at .<init>(<console>:24)
at .<clinit>(<console>)
at .<init>(<console>:7)
at .<clinit>(<console>)
at $print(<console>)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkIMain$ReadEvalPrint.call(SparkIMain.scala:1065)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkIMain$Request.loadAndRun(SparkIMain.scala:1338)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkIMain.loadAndRunReq$1(SparkIMain.scala:840)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkIMain.interpret(SparkIMain.scala:871)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkIMain.interpret(SparkIMain.scala:819)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop.reallyInterpret$1(SparkILoop.scala:857)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop.interpretStartingWith(SparkILoop.scala:902)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoop.command(SparkILoop.scala:814)
at org.apache.spark.repl.SparkILoopInit$$anonfun$initializeSpark$1.apply(SparkILoopInit.scala:123)
What the problem is?

Answer 1

This error message indicates javax.ws.rs API jar file is missing from your classpath. You can go to Maven repository and download that jar file and put that in you classpath. javax.ws.rs is the Java API for RESTful web services.
Maven repository:
http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.ws.rs