title: How to include hbase-site.xml in the classpath
body: <p>I am currently trying to get my HBase code to use the settings specified in my hbase-site.xml. It seems to use default settings instead of what is specified in the hbase-site.xml config file. I have restarted the HBase cluster since updating the files, but it is still not using config files that I updated.</p>
  
  <p>The cluster I am using is 2 nodes, one of which is the master. The config files on both of the nodes specify the IP of the master node as the zookeeper quorum. I believe the problem is that my settings specified in hbase-site.xml are not being used because the code runs fine if I set the zookeeper quorum to the same value as in my hbase-site.xml via code, but the second node cannot contact the master if the quorum is not specified via code.</p>
  
  <pre><code>config = HBaseConfiguration.create();
  config.set("hbase.zookeeper.quorum", masterNodeIP);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I would greatly appreciate instructions or a link on how to include hbase-site.xml into my code's classpath. I develop with Eclipse on a Windows machine and have the HBase environment installed on a Linux cluster. I usually use Eclipse to compile the code, due to dependencies.</p>
  
  <p>Ideally, I want each node in the cluster to use its own config file.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance!</p>