title: Alternative ways to start hadoop streaming job
body: <p>I can sucessfully kick of a hadoop streaming job from the terminal but i am looking for ways to start steaming jobs via an api, eclipse or some other means.</p>
  
  <p>The closest i found was this post <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11564463/remotely-execute-hadoop-streaming-job">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11564463/remotely-execute-hadoop-streaming-job</a> but it has no answers!</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas or suggestions would be welcome.</p>