diff --git a/hyracks-examples/hadoop-compat-example/hadoopcompathelper/.classpath b/hyracks-examples/hadoop-compat-example/hadoopcompathelper/.classpath
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index 0000000..1f3c1ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/hadoop-compat-example/hadoopcompathelper/.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/hadoop-compat-example/hadoopcompathelper/.project b/hyracks-examples/hadoop-compat-example/hadoopcompathelper/.project
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..19ce234
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/hadoop-compat-example/hadoopcompathelper/.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/hadoop-compat-example/hadoopcompathelper/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs b/hyracks-examples/hadoop-compat-example/hadoopcompathelper/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs
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index 0000000..8599738
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/hadoop-compat-example/hadoopcompathelper/.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/hadoop-compat-example/hadoopcompathelper/.settings/org.maven.ide.eclipse.prefs b/hyracks-examples/hadoop-compat-example/hadoopcompathelper/.settings/org.maven.ide.eclipse.prefs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4562b1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/hadoop-compat-example/hadoopcompathelper/.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/hadoop-compat-example/hadoopcompathelper/pom.xml b/hyracks-examples/hadoop-compat-example/hadoopcompathelper/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..49090ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/hadoop-compat-example/hadoopcompathelper/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.compat</groupId>
+  <artifactId>hadoopcompathelper</artifactId>
+  <version>0.1.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>edu.uci.ics.hyracks.examples</groupId>
+    <artifactId>hadoop-compat-example</artifactId>
+    <version>0.1.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  </parent>
+
+  <dependencies>
+  	<dependency>
+  		<groupId>edu.uci.ics.hyracks</groupId>
+  		<artifactId>hyracks-dataflow-std</artifactId>
+  		<version>0.1.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  		<scope>compile</scope>
+  	</dependency>
+  	<dependency>
+  		<groupId>edu.uci.ics.hyracks</groupId>
+  		<artifactId>hyracks-api</artifactId>
+  		<version>0.1.6-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/hadoop-compat-example/hadoopcompathelper/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/examples/wordcount/WordCount.java b/hyracks-examples/hadoop-compat-example/hadoopcompathelper/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/examples/wordcount/WordCount.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2a6ac3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hyracks-examples/hadoop-compat-example/hadoopcompathelper/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/examples/wordcount/WordCount.java
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+/*
+ * 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.wordcount;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.Serializable;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.StringTokenizer;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.io.IntWritable;
+import org.apache.hadoop.io.LongWritable;
+import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapReduceBase;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Mapper;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.OutputCollector;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Reducer;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Reporter;
+
+public class WordCount implements Serializable {
+    public static class Map extends MapReduceBase implements Mapper<LongWritable, Text, Text, IntWritable>,
+            Serializable {
+
+        private final static IntWritable ONE = new IntWritable(1);
+        private Text word = new Text();
+
+        public void map(LongWritable key, Text value, OutputCollector<Text, IntWritable> output, Reporter reporter)
+                throws IOException {
+            String line = value.toString();
+            StringTokenizer tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(line);
+            while (tokenizer.hasMoreTokens()) {
+                String token = tokenizer.nextToken();
+                word.set(token);
+                output.collect(word, ONE);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    public static class Reduce extends MapReduceBase implements Reducer<Text, IntWritable, Text, IntWritable>,
+            Serializable {
+
+        public void reduce(Text key, Iterator<IntWritable> values, OutputCollector<Text, IntWritable> output,
+                Reporter reporter) throws IOException {
+            int sum = 0;
+            while (values.hasNext()) {
+                sum += values.next().get();
+            }
+            output.collect(key, new IntWritable(sum));
+        }
+    }
+}
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