title: org.apache.flink.client.program.ProgramInvocationException: The main method caused an error: No ExecutorFactory found to execute the application
body: <p>I am trying to submit a flink job of version 1.11.3 . The actual application is developed in flink 1.8.1.
  Since the Hadoop cluster is 3.2.0 apache I downloaded flink 1.11.3 (flink-1.11.3-bin-scala_2.11.tgz) and tried  to submit the job.
  while submitting facing the below mentioned  exception . I have set the HADOOP parameters :</p>
  <pre><code>export HADOOP_CONF_DIR=/etc/hadoop/conf
  
  export HADOOP_CLASSPATH='hadoop classpath'
  </code></pre>
  <p>Is there any changes I need to do it the pom file to overcome this</p>
  <p>org.apache.flink.client.program.ProgramInvocationException: The main method caused an error: No ExecutorFactory found to execute the application.</p>
  <pre><code>at org.apache.flink.client.program.PackagedProgram.callMainMethod(PackagedProgram.java:302)
  
  at org.apache.flink.client.program.PackagedProgram.invokeInteractiveModeForExecution(PackagedProgram.java:198)
  
  at org.apache.flink.client.ClientUtils.executeProgram(ClientUtils.java:149)
  
  at org.apache.flink.client.cli.CliFrontend.executeProgram(CliFrontend.java:699)
  
  at org.apache.flink.client.cli.CliFrontend.run(CliFrontend.java:232)
  
  at org.apache.flink.client.cli.CliFrontend.parseParameters(CliFrontend.java:916)
  
  at org.apache.flink.client.cli.CliFrontend.lambda$main$10(CliFrontend.java:992)
  
  at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
  
  at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:422)
  
  at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1730)
  
  at org.apache.flink.runtime.security.contexts.HadoopSecurityContext.runSecured(HadoopSecurityContext.java:41)
  
  at org.apache.flink.client.cli.CliFrontend.main(CliFrontend.java:992)
  </code></pre>
  <p>Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: No ExecutorFactory found to execute the application.</p>
  <pre><code>at org.apache.flink.core.execution.DefaultExecutorServiceLoader.getExecutorFactory(DefaultExecutorServiceLoader.java:84)
  
  at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.environment.StreamExecutionEnvironment.executeAsync(StreamExecutionEnvironment.java:1809)
  
  at org.apache.flink.client.program.StreamContextEnvironment.executeAsync(StreamContextEnvironment.java:128)
  
  at org.apache.flink.client.program.StreamContextEnvironment.execute(StreamContextEnvironment.java:76)
  
  at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.environment.StreamExecutionEnvironment.execute(StreamExecutionEnvironment.java:1700)
  
  at org.sapphire.appspayload.StreamingJob.main(StreamingJob.java:214)
  
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
  
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
  
  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
  
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
  
  at org.apache.flink.client.program.PackagedProgram.callMainMethod(PackagedProgram.java:288)
  </code></pre>