diff --git a/hyracks-examples/text-example/.project b/hyracks-examples/text-example/.project
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4e057cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/text-example/.project
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<projectDescription>
+	<name>text-example</name>
+	<comment></comment>
+	<projects>
+	</projects>
+	<buildSpec>
+		<buildCommand>
+			<name>org.maven.ide.eclipse.maven2Builder</name>
+			<arguments>
+			</arguments>
+		</buildCommand>
+	</buildSpec>
+	<natures>
+		<nature>org.maven.ide.eclipse.maven2Nature</nature>
+	</natures>
+</projectDescription>
diff --git a/hyracks-examples/text-example/.settings/org.maven.ide.eclipse.prefs b/hyracks-examples/text-example/.settings/org.maven.ide.eclipse.prefs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4562b1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/text-example/.settings/org.maven.ide.eclipse.prefs
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#Tue Sep 28 14:37:42 PDT 2010
+activeProfiles=
+eclipse.preferences.version=1
+fullBuildGoals=process-test-resources
+includeModules=false
+resolveWorkspaceProjects=true
+resourceFilterGoals=process-resources resources\:testResources
+skipCompilerPlugin=true
+version=1
diff --git a/hyracks-examples/text-example/pom.xml b/hyracks-examples/text-example/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f6b8d8f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/text-example/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <groupId>edu.uci.ics.hyracks.examples</groupId>
+  <artifactId>text-example</artifactId>
+  <version>0.1.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <packaging>pom</packaging>
+
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>edu.uci.ics.hyracks</groupId>
+    <artifactId>hyracks-examples</artifactId>
+    <version>0.1.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  </parent>
+
+  <modules>
+    <module>texthelper</module>
+    <module>textclient</module>
+    <module>textapp</module>
+  </modules>
+</project>
diff --git a/hyracks-examples/text-example/textapp/.classpath b/hyracks-examples/text-example/textapp/.classpath
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3f62785
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/text-example/textapp/.classpath
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<classpath>
+	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER/org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.launcher.StandardVMType/J2SE-1.4"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.maven.ide.eclipse.MAVEN2_CLASSPATH_CONTAINER"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
+</classpath>
diff --git a/hyracks-examples/text-example/textapp/.project b/hyracks-examples/text-example/textapp/.project
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4f3af14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/text-example/textapp/.project
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<projectDescription>
+	<name>textapp</name>
+	<comment></comment>
+	<projects>
+	</projects>
+	<buildSpec>
+		<buildCommand>
+			<name>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javabuilder</name>
+			<arguments>
+			</arguments>
+		</buildCommand>
+		<buildCommand>
+			<name>org.maven.ide.eclipse.maven2Builder</name>
+			<arguments>
+			</arguments>
+		</buildCommand>
+	</buildSpec>
+	<natures>
+		<nature>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature</nature>
+		<nature>org.maven.ide.eclipse.maven2Nature</nature>
+	</natures>
+</projectDescription>
diff --git a/hyracks-examples/text-example/textapp/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs b/hyracks-examples/text-example/textapp/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..37272d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/text-example/textapp/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#Tue Sep 28 14:37:42 PDT 2010
+eclipse.preferences.version=1
+org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.codegen.targetPlatform=1.4
+org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.compliance=1.4
+org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.problem.forbiddenReference=warning
+org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.source=1.4
diff --git a/hyracks-examples/text-example/textapp/.settings/org.maven.ide.eclipse.prefs b/hyracks-examples/text-example/textapp/.settings/org.maven.ide.eclipse.prefs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4562b1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/text-example/textapp/.settings/org.maven.ide.eclipse.prefs
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#Tue Sep 28 14:37:42 PDT 2010
+activeProfiles=
+eclipse.preferences.version=1
+fullBuildGoals=process-test-resources
+includeModules=false
+resolveWorkspaceProjects=true
+resourceFilterGoals=process-resources resources\:testResources
+skipCompilerPlugin=true
+version=1
diff --git a/hyracks-examples/text-example/textapp/pom.xml b/hyracks-examples/text-example/textapp/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..706ae72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/text-example/textapp/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <groupId>edu.uci.ics.hyracks.examples.text</groupId>
+  <artifactId>textapp</artifactId>
+  <version>0.1.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>edu.uci.ics.hyracks.examples</groupId>
+    <artifactId>text-example</artifactId>
+    <version>0.1.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  </parent>
+
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <id>copy-dependencies</id>
+            <phase>package</phase>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
+            </goals>
+            <configuration>
+              <outputDirectory>target/application/lib</outputDirectory>
+            </configuration>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>2.2-beta-5</version>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <configuration>
+              <descriptors>
+                <descriptor>src/main/assembly/app-assembly.xml</descriptor>
+              </descriptors>
+            </configuration>
+            <phase>package</phase>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>attached</goal>
+            </goals>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+  <dependencies>
+  	<dependency>
+  		<groupId>edu.uci.ics.hyracks.examples.text</groupId>
+  		<artifactId>texthelper</artifactId>
+  		<version>0.1.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  		<scope>compile</scope>
+  	</dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+</project>
diff --git a/hyracks-examples/text-example/textapp/src/main/assembly/app-assembly.xml b/hyracks-examples/text-example/textapp/src/main/assembly/app-assembly.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..43ace6c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/text-example/textapp/src/main/assembly/app-assembly.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<assembly>
+  <id>app-assembly</id>
+  <formats>
+    <format>zip</format>
+  </formats>
+  <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>
+  <fileSets>
+    <fileSet>
+      <directory>target/application/lib</directory>
+      <outputDirectory>lib</outputDirectory>
+    </fileSet>
+  </fileSets>
+</assembly>
diff --git a/hyracks-examples/text-example/textclient/.classpath b/hyracks-examples/text-example/textclient/.classpath
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1f3c1ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/text-example/textclient/.classpath
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<classpath>
+	<classpathentry kind="src" output="target/classes" path="src/main/java"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER/org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.launcher.StandardVMType/JavaSE-1.6"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.maven.ide.eclipse.MAVEN2_CLASSPATH_CONTAINER"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
+</classpath>
diff --git a/hyracks-examples/text-example/textclient/.project b/hyracks-examples/text-example/textclient/.project
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..04307d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/text-example/textclient/.project
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<projectDescription>
+	<name>textclient</name>
+	<comment></comment>
+	<projects>
+	</projects>
+	<buildSpec>
+		<buildCommand>
+			<name>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javabuilder</name>
+			<arguments>
+			</arguments>
+		</buildCommand>
+		<buildCommand>
+			<name>org.maven.ide.eclipse.maven2Builder</name>
+			<arguments>
+			</arguments>
+		</buildCommand>
+	</buildSpec>
+	<natures>
+		<nature>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature</nature>
+		<nature>org.maven.ide.eclipse.maven2Nature</nature>
+	</natures>
+</projectDescription>
diff --git a/hyracks-examples/text-example/textclient/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs b/hyracks-examples/text-example/textclient/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8599738
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/text-example/textclient/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#Tue Sep 28 14:37:42 PDT 2010
+eclipse.preferences.version=1
+org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.codegen.targetPlatform=1.6
+org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.compliance=1.6
+org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.problem.forbiddenReference=warning
+org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.source=1.6
diff --git a/hyracks-examples/text-example/textclient/.settings/org.maven.ide.eclipse.prefs b/hyracks-examples/text-example/textclient/.settings/org.maven.ide.eclipse.prefs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4562b1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/text-example/textclient/.settings/org.maven.ide.eclipse.prefs
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#Tue Sep 28 14:37:42 PDT 2010
+activeProfiles=
+eclipse.preferences.version=1
+fullBuildGoals=process-test-resources
+includeModules=false
+resolveWorkspaceProjects=true
+resourceFilterGoals=process-resources resources\:testResources
+skipCompilerPlugin=true
+version=1
diff --git a/hyracks-examples/text-example/textclient/pom.xml b/hyracks-examples/text-example/textclient/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c56a6b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/text-example/textclient/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <groupId>edu.uci.ics.hyracks.examples.text</groupId>
+  <artifactId>textclient</artifactId>
+  <version>0.1.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>edu.uci.ics.hyracks.examples</groupId>
+    <artifactId>text-example</artifactId>
+    <version>0.1.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  </parent>
+
+  <dependencies>
+  	<dependency>
+  		<groupId>edu.uci.ics.hyracks</groupId>
+  		<artifactId>hyracks-dataflow-std</artifactId>
+  		<version>0.1.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  		<scope>compile</scope>
+  	</dependency>
+  	<dependency>
+  		<groupId>edu.uci.ics.hyracks.examples.text</groupId>
+  		<artifactId>texthelper</artifactId>
+  		<version>0.1.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  		<type>jar</type>
+  		<scope>compile</scope>
+  	</dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>2.0.2</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <source>1.6</source>
+          <target>1.6</target>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+        <artifactId>appassembler-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <configuration>
+              <programs>
+                <program>
+                  <mainClass>edu.uci.ics.hyracks.examples.text.client.WordCountMain</mainClass>
+                  <name>textclient</name>
+                </program>
+              </programs>
+              <repositoryLayout>flat</repositoryLayout>
+              <repositoryName>lib</repositoryName>
+            </configuration>
+            <phase>package</phase>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>assemble</goal>
+            </goals>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>2.2-beta-5</version>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <configuration>
+              <descriptors>
+                <descriptor>src/main/assembly/binary-assembly.xml</descriptor>
+              </descriptors>
+            </configuration>
+            <phase>package</phase>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>attached</goal>
+            </goals>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+</project>
diff --git a/hyracks-examples/text-example/textclient/src/main/assembly/binary-assembly.xml b/hyracks-examples/text-example/textclient/src/main/assembly/binary-assembly.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0500499
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/text-example/textclient/src/main/assembly/binary-assembly.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+<assembly>
+  <id>binary-assembly</id>
+  <formats>
+    <format>zip</format>
+    <format>dir</format>
+  </formats>
+  <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>
+  <fileSets>
+    <fileSet>
+      <directory>target/appassembler/bin</directory>
+      <outputDirectory>bin</outputDirectory>
+      <fileMode>0755</fileMode>
+    </fileSet>
+    <fileSet>
+      <directory>target/appassembler/lib</directory>
+      <outputDirectory>lib</outputDirectory>
+    </fileSet>
+  </fileSets>
+</assembly>
diff --git a/hyracks-examples/text-example/textclient/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/examples/text/client/WordCountMain.java b/hyracks-examples/text-example/textclient/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/examples/text/client/WordCountMain.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..96045d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/text-example/textclient/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/examples/text/client/WordCountMain.java
@@ -0,0 +1,180 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2009-2010 by The Regents of the University of California
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * you may obtain a copy of the License from
+ * 
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package edu.uci.ics.hyracks.examples.text.client;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.util.UUID;
+
+import org.kohsuke.args4j.CmdLineParser;
+import org.kohsuke.args4j.Option;
+
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.client.HyracksRMIConnection;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.client.IHyracksClientConnection;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.constraints.AbsoluteLocationConstraint;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.constraints.ExplicitPartitionConstraint;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.constraints.LocationConstraint;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.constraints.PartitionConstraint;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataflow.IConnectorDescriptor;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataflow.IOperatorDescriptor;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.IBinaryComparatorFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.IBinaryHashFunctionFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.ISerializerDeserializer;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.RecordDescriptor;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.job.JobSpecification;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.comparators.UTF8StringBinaryComparatorFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.hash.UTF8StringBinaryHashFunctionFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.marshalling.IntegerSerializerDeserializer;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.marshalling.UTF8StringSerializerDeserializer;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.partition.FieldHashPartitionComputerFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.std.aggregators.CountAggregatorFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.std.aggregators.IFieldValueResultingAggregatorFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.std.aggregators.MultiAggregatorFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.std.connectors.MToNHashPartitioningConnectorDescriptor;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.std.connectors.OneToOneConnectorDescriptor;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.std.file.ConstantFileSplitProvider;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.std.file.FileScanOperatorDescriptor;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.std.file.FileSplit;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.std.file.FrameFileWriterOperatorDescriptor;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.std.file.IFileSplitProvider;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.std.group.HashGroupOperatorDescriptor;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.std.group.PreclusteredGroupOperatorDescriptor;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.std.sort.ExternalSortOperatorDescriptor;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.examples.text.WordTupleParserFactory;
+
+public class WordCountMain {
+    private static class Options {
+        @Option(name = "-host", usage = "Hyracks Cluster Controller Host name", required = true)
+        public String host;
+
+        @Option(name = "-port", usage = "Hyracks Cluster Controller Port (default: 1099)")
+        public int port = 1099;
+
+        @Option(name = "-app", usage = "Hyracks Application name", required = true)
+        public String app;
+
+        @Option(name = "-infile-splits", usage = "Comma separated list of file-splits for the input. A file-split is <node-name>:<path>", required = true)
+        public String inFileSplits;
+
+        @Option(name = "-outfile-splits", usage = "Comma separated list of file-splits for the output", required = true)
+        public String outFileSplits;
+
+        @Option(name = "-use-hash", usage = "Use Hash based grouping", required = true)
+        public boolean useHash;
+
+        @Option(name = "-hashtable-size", usage = "Hash table size (default: 8191)", required = false)
+        public int htSize = 8191;
+
+        @Option(name = "-sortbuffer-size", usage = "Sort buffer size in frames (default: 32768)", required = false)
+        public int sbSize = 32768;
+    }
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+        Options options = new Options();
+        CmdLineParser parser = new CmdLineParser(options);
+        parser.parseArgument(args);
+
+        IHyracksClientConnection hcc = new HyracksRMIConnection(options.host, options.port);
+
+        JobSpecification job = createJob(parseFileSplits(options.inFileSplits), parseFileSplits(options.outFileSplits),
+                options.useHash, options.htSize, options.sbSize);
+
+        long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
+        UUID jobId = hcc.createJob(options.app, job);
+        hcc.start(jobId);
+        hcc.waitForCompletion(jobId);
+        long end = System.currentTimeMillis();
+        System.err.println(start + " " + end + " " + (end - start));
+    }
+
+    private static FileSplit[] parseFileSplits(String fileSplits) {
+        String[] splits = fileSplits.split(",");
+        FileSplit[] fSplits = new FileSplit[splits.length];
+        for (int i = 0; i < splits.length; ++i) {
+            String s = splits[i].trim();
+            int idx = s.indexOf(':');
+            if (idx < 0) {
+                throw new IllegalArgumentException("File split " + s + " not well formed");
+            }
+            fSplits[i] = new FileSplit(s.substring(0, idx), new File(s.substring(idx + 1)));
+        }
+        return fSplits;
+    }
+
+    private static JobSpecification createJob(FileSplit[] inSplits, FileSplit[] outSplits, boolean useHash, int htSize,
+            int sbSize) {
+        JobSpecification spec = new JobSpecification();
+
+        IFileSplitProvider splitsProvider = new ConstantFileSplitProvider(inSplits);
+        RecordDescriptor wordDesc = new RecordDescriptor(
+                new ISerializerDeserializer[] { UTF8StringSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE });
+
+        FileScanOperatorDescriptor wordScanner = new FileScanOperatorDescriptor(spec, splitsProvider,
+                new WordTupleParserFactory(), wordDesc);
+        wordScanner.setPartitionConstraint(createPartitionConstraint(inSplits));
+
+        RecordDescriptor groupResultDesc = new RecordDescriptor(new ISerializerDeserializer[] {
+                UTF8StringSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE, IntegerSerializerDeserializer.INSTANCE });
+
+        IOperatorDescriptor gBy;
+        if (useHash) {
+            gBy = new HashGroupOperatorDescriptor(spec, new int[] { 0 },
+                    new FieldHashPartitionComputerFactory(new int[] { 0 },
+                            new IBinaryHashFunctionFactory[] { UTF8StringBinaryHashFunctionFactory.INSTANCE }),
+                    new IBinaryComparatorFactory[] { UTF8StringBinaryComparatorFactory.INSTANCE },
+                    new MultiAggregatorFactory(
+                            new IFieldValueResultingAggregatorFactory[] { new CountAggregatorFactory() }),
+                    groupResultDesc, htSize);
+            gBy.setPartitionConstraint(createPartitionConstraint(outSplits));
+            IConnectorDescriptor scanGroupConn = new MToNHashPartitioningConnectorDescriptor(spec,
+                    new FieldHashPartitionComputerFactory(new int[] { 0 },
+                            new IBinaryHashFunctionFactory[] { UTF8StringBinaryHashFunctionFactory.INSTANCE }));
+            spec.connect(scanGroupConn, wordScanner, 0, gBy, 0);
+        } else {
+            ExternalSortOperatorDescriptor sorter = new ExternalSortOperatorDescriptor(spec, sbSize, new int[] { 0 },
+                    new IBinaryComparatorFactory[] { UTF8StringBinaryComparatorFactory.INSTANCE }, wordDesc);
+
+            IConnectorDescriptor scanSortConn = new MToNHashPartitioningConnectorDescriptor(spec,
+                    new FieldHashPartitionComputerFactory(new int[] { 0 },
+                            new IBinaryHashFunctionFactory[] { UTF8StringBinaryHashFunctionFactory.INSTANCE }));
+            spec.connect(scanSortConn, wordScanner, 0, sorter, 0);
+
+            gBy = new PreclusteredGroupOperatorDescriptor(spec, new int[] { 0 },
+                    new IBinaryComparatorFactory[] { UTF8StringBinaryComparatorFactory.INSTANCE },
+                    new MultiAggregatorFactory(
+                            new IFieldValueResultingAggregatorFactory[] { new CountAggregatorFactory() }),
+                    groupResultDesc);
+            OneToOneConnectorDescriptor sortGroupConn = new OneToOneConnectorDescriptor(spec);
+            spec.connect(sortGroupConn, sorter, 0, gBy, 0);
+        }
+
+        IFileSplitProvider outSplitProvider = new ConstantFileSplitProvider(outSplits);
+        FrameFileWriterOperatorDescriptor writer = new FrameFileWriterOperatorDescriptor(spec, outSplitProvider);
+        writer.setPartitionConstraint(createPartitionConstraint(outSplits));
+
+        IConnectorDescriptor gbyPrinterConn = new OneToOneConnectorDescriptor(spec);
+        spec.connect(gbyPrinterConn, gBy, 0, writer, 0);
+
+        spec.addRoot(writer);
+        return spec;
+    }
+
+    private static PartitionConstraint createPartitionConstraint(FileSplit[] splits) {
+        LocationConstraint[] lConstraints = new LocationConstraint[splits.length];
+        for (int i = 0; i < splits.length; ++i) {
+            lConstraints[i] = new AbsoluteLocationConstraint(splits[i].getNodeName());
+        }
+        return new ExplicitPartitionConstraint(lConstraints);
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/.classpath b/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/.classpath
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1f3c1ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/.classpath
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<classpath>
+	<classpathentry kind="src" output="target/classes" path="src/main/java"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER/org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.launcher.StandardVMType/JavaSE-1.6"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="con" path="org.maven.ide.eclipse.MAVEN2_CLASSPATH_CONTAINER"/>
+	<classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
+</classpath>
diff --git a/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/.project b/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/.project
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..19ce234
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/.project
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<projectDescription>
+	<name>texthelper</name>
+	<comment></comment>
+	<projects>
+	</projects>
+	<buildSpec>
+		<buildCommand>
+			<name>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javabuilder</name>
+			<arguments>
+			</arguments>
+		</buildCommand>
+		<buildCommand>
+			<name>org.maven.ide.eclipse.maven2Builder</name>
+			<arguments>
+			</arguments>
+		</buildCommand>
+	</buildSpec>
+	<natures>
+		<nature>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature</nature>
+		<nature>org.maven.ide.eclipse.maven2Nature</nature>
+	</natures>
+</projectDescription>
diff --git a/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs b/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8599738
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#Tue Sep 28 14:37:42 PDT 2010
+eclipse.preferences.version=1
+org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.codegen.targetPlatform=1.6
+org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.compliance=1.6
+org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.problem.forbiddenReference=warning
+org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.source=1.6
diff --git a/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/.settings/org.maven.ide.eclipse.prefs b/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/.settings/org.maven.ide.eclipse.prefs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4562b1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/.settings/org.maven.ide.eclipse.prefs
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#Tue Sep 28 14:37:42 PDT 2010
+activeProfiles=
+eclipse.preferences.version=1
+fullBuildGoals=process-test-resources
+includeModules=false
+resolveWorkspaceProjects=true
+resourceFilterGoals=process-resources resources\:testResources
+skipCompilerPlugin=true
+version=1
diff --git a/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/pom.xml b/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b0dae86
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <groupId>edu.uci.ics.hyracks.examples.text</groupId>
+  <artifactId>texthelper</artifactId>
+  <version>0.1.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>edu.uci.ics.hyracks.examples</groupId>
+    <artifactId>text-example</artifactId>
+    <version>0.1.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  </parent>
+
+  <dependencies>
+  	<dependency>
+  		<groupId>edu.uci.ics.hyracks</groupId>
+  		<artifactId>hyracks-dataflow-std</artifactId>
+  		<version>0.1.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  		<scope>compile</scope>
+  	</dependency>
+  	<dependency>
+  		<groupId>edu.uci.ics.hyracks</groupId>
+  		<artifactId>hyracks-api</artifactId>
+  		<version>0.1.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  		<scope>compile</scope>
+  	</dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>2.0.2</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <source>1.6</source>
+          <target>1.6</target>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+</project>
diff --git a/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/examples/text/WordTupleParserFactory.java b/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/examples/text/WordTupleParserFactory.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9825fdf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/text-example/texthelper/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/examples/text/WordTupleParserFactory.java
@@ -0,0 +1,128 @@
+package edu.uci.ics.hyracks.examples.text;
+
+import java.io.DataOutput;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.io.Reader;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.comm.IFrameWriter;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.context.IHyracksContext;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksDataException;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.comm.io.ArrayTupleBuilder;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.comm.io.FrameTupleAppender;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.comm.util.FrameUtils;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.parsers.IValueParser;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.parsers.UTF8StringParserFactory;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.std.file.ITupleParser;
+import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.std.file.ITupleParserFactory;
+
+public class WordTupleParserFactory implements ITupleParserFactory {
+    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+    @Override
+    public ITupleParser createTupleParser(final IHyracksContext ctx) {
+        return new ITupleParser() {
+            @Override
+            public void parse(InputStream in, IFrameWriter writer) throws HyracksDataException {
+                try {
+                    ByteBuffer frame = ctx.getResourceManager().allocateFrame();
+                    FrameTupleAppender appender = new FrameTupleAppender(ctx);
+                    appender.reset(frame, true);
+                    ArrayTupleBuilder tb = new ArrayTupleBuilder(1);
+                    DataOutput dos = tb.getDataOutput();
+
+                    IValueParser utf8StringParser = UTF8StringParserFactory.INSTANCE.createValueParser();
+                    WordCursor cursor = new WordCursor(new InputStreamReader(in));
+                    while (cursor.nextWord()) {
+                        tb.reset();
+                        utf8StringParser.parse(cursor.buffer, cursor.fStart, cursor.fEnd - cursor.fStart, dos);
+                        tb.addFieldEndOffset();
+                        if (!appender.append(tb.getFieldEndOffsets(), tb.getByteArray(), 0, tb.getSize())) {
+                            FrameUtils.flushFrame(frame, writer);
+                            appender.reset(frame, true);
+                            if (!appender.append(tb.getFieldEndOffsets(), tb.getByteArray(), 0, tb.getSize())) {
+                                throw new IllegalStateException();
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+                    if (appender.getTupleCount() > 0) {
+                        FrameUtils.flushFrame(frame, writer);
+                    }
+                } catch (IOException e) {
+                    throw new HyracksDataException(e);
+                }
+            }
+        };
+    }
+
+    private static class WordCursor {
+        private static final int INITIAL_BUFFER_SIZE = 4096;
+        private static final int INCREMENT = 4096;
+
+        private char[] buffer;
+
+        private int start;
+        private int end;
+        private boolean eof;
+
+        private int fStart;
+        private int fEnd;
+        private Reader in;
+
+        public WordCursor(Reader in) {
+            this.in = in;
+            buffer = new char[INITIAL_BUFFER_SIZE];
+            start = 0;
+            end = 0;
+            eof = false;
+        }
+
+        public boolean nextWord() throws IOException {
+            if (eof) {
+                return false;
+            }
+
+            int p = start;
+            while (true) {
+                if (p >= end) {
+                    int s = start;
+                    eof = !readMore();
+                    if (eof) {
+                        return true;
+                    }
+                    p -= (s - start);
+                }
+                char ch = buffer[p];
+                if (Character.isWhitespace(ch)) {
+                    fStart = start;
+                    fEnd = p;
+                    start = p + 1;
+                    return true;
+                }
+                ++p;
+            }
+        }
+
+        private boolean readMore() throws IOException {
+            if (start > 0) {
+                System.arraycopy(buffer, start, buffer, 0, end - start);
+            }
+            end -= start;
+            start = 0;
+
+            if (end == buffer.length) {
+                buffer = Arrays.copyOf(buffer, buffer.length + INCREMENT);
+            }
+
+            int n = in.read(buffer, end, buffer.length - end);
+            if (n < 0) {
+                return false;
+            }
+            end += n;
+            return true;
+        }
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file