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+@echo off
+@rem Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+@rem contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+@rem this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+@rem The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+@rem (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+@rem the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+@rem
+@rem     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+@rem
+@rem Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+@rem distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+@rem WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+@rem See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+@rem limitations under the License.
+
+setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
+
+if not defined HADOOP_BIN_PATH ( 
+  set HADOOP_BIN_PATH=%~dp0
+)
+
+if "%HADOOP_BIN_PATH:~-1%" == "\" (
+  set HADOOP_BIN_PATH=%HADOOP_BIN_PATH:~0,-1%
+)
+
+set DEFAULT_LIBEXEC_DIR=%HADOOP_BIN_PATH%\..\libexec
+if not defined HADOOP_LIBEXEC_DIR (
+  set HADOOP_LIBEXEC_DIR=%DEFAULT_LIBEXEC_DIR%
+)
+
+:main
+
+  set CLASS=edu.uci.ics.asterix.aoya.AsterixYARNClient
+
+  @rem JAVA and JAVA_HEAP_MAX and set in hadoop-config.cmd
+
+  if defined YARN_HEAPSIZE (
+    @rem echo run with Java heapsize %YARN_HEAPSIZE%
+    set JAVA_HEAP_MAX=-Xmx%YARN_HEAPSIZE%m
+  )
+
+  @rem CLASSPATH initially contains HADOOP_CONF_DIR & YARN_CONF_DIR
+  if not defined HADOOP_CONF_DIR (
+    echo No HADOOP_CONF_DIR set. 
+    echo Please specify it either in yarn-env.cmd or in the environment.
+    goto :eof
+  )
+
+  set CLASSPATH=%HADOOP_CONF_DIR%;%YARN_CONF_DIR%;%CLASSPATH%;Z:\lib\*
+
+  @rem for developers, add Hadoop classes to CLASSPATH
+  if exist %HADOOP_YARN_HOME%\yarn-api\target\classes (
+    set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%HADOOP_YARN_HOME%\yarn-api\target\classes
+  )
+
+  if exist %HADOOP_YARN_HOME%\yarn-common\target\classes (
+    set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%HADOOP_YARN_HOME%\yarn-common\target\classes
+  )
+
+  if exist %HADOOP_YARN_HOME%\yarn-mapreduce\target\classes (
+    set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%HADOOP_YARN_HOME%\yarn-mapreduce\target\classes
+  )
+
+  if exist %HADOOP_YARN_HOME%\yarn-master-worker\target\classes (
+    set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%HADOOP_YARN_HOME%\yarn-master-worker\target\classes
+  )
+
+  if exist %HADOOP_YARN_HOME%\yarn-server\yarn-server-nodemanager\target\classes (
+    set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%HADOOP_YARN_HOME%\yarn-server\yarn-server-nodemanager\target\classes
+  )
+
+  if exist %HADOOP_YARN_HOME%\yarn-server\yarn-server-common\target\classes (
+    set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%HADOOP_YARN_HOME%\yarn-server\yarn-server-common\target\classes
+  )
+
+  if exist %HADOOP_YARN_HOME%\yarn-server\yarn-server-resourcemanager\target\classes (
+    set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%HADOOP_YARN_HOME%\yarn-server\yarn-server-resourcemanager\target\classes
+  )
+
+  if exist %HADOOP_YARN_HOME%\build\test\classes (
+    set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%HADOOP_YARN_HOME%\build\test\classes
+  )
+
+  if exist %HADOOP_YARN_HOME%\build\tools (
+    set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%HADOOP_YARN_HOME%\build\tools
+  )
+
+  set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%HADOOP_YARN_HOME%\%YARN_DIR%\*
+  set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%HADOOP_YARN_HOME%\%YARN_LIB_JARS_DIR%\*
+
+  
+
+  if defined JAVA_LIBRARY_PATH (
+    set YARN_OPTS=%YARN_OPTS% -Djava.library.path=%JAVA_LIBRARY_PATH%
+  )
+
+  set java_arguments=%JAVA_HEAP_MAX% %YARN_OPTS% -classpath %CLASSPATH% %CLASS%
+  call java %java_arguments% %*
+
+goto :eof
+
+endlocal