With the --files option you put the file in your working directory on the executor. You are trying to point to the file using an absolute path which is not what files option does for you. Can you use just the name "rule2.xml" and not a path. When you read the documentation for the files. See the important note at the bottom of the page running on yarn.   Also do not use the Resources.getResource() but just use a open of a java construct like: new FileInputStream("rule2.xml") or something like it.   Wilfred ... View more