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+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You 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 at
+#
+#     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.
+
+THISSERVICE=hwi
+export SERVICE_LIST="${SERVICE_LIST}${THISSERVICE} "
+
+hwi() {
+
+  if $cygwin; then
+    HIVE_LIB=`cygpath -w "$HIVE_LIB"`
+  fi
+
+  CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.hive.hwi.HWIServer
+  # The ls hack forces the * to be expanded which is required because 
+  # System.getenv doesn't do globbing
+  export HWI_JAR_FILE=$(ls ${HIVE_LIB}/hive-hwi-*.jar)
+  export HWI_WAR_FILE=$(ls ${HIVE_LIB}/hive-hwi-*.war)
+
+  #hwi requires ant jars
+  if [ "$ANT_LIB" = "" ] ; then
+    ANT_LIB=/opt/ant/lib
+  fi
+  for f in ${ANT_LIB}/*.jar; do
+    if [[ ! -f $f ]]; then
+      continue;
+    fi
+    HADOOP_CLASSPATH=${HADOOP_CLASSPATH}:$f
+  done
+
+  export HADOOP_CLASSPATH
+  
+  # hadoop 20 or newer - skip the aux_jars option and hiveconf
+  exec $HADOOP jar ${HWI_JAR_FILE} $CLASS $HIVE_OPTS "$@"
+}
+
+hwi_help(){
+  echo "Usage ANT_LIB=XXXX hive --service hwi"	
+}