Hi, Very useful article. I tried this exact code snippet. But, failing. Any help will be appreciated : I am no HDP 2.4. Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.RpcRetryingCaller.callWithoutRetries(RpcRetryingCaller.java:208) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ClientScanner.call(ClientScanner.java:320) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ClientScanner.nextScanner(ClientScanner.java:295) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ClientScanner.initializeScannerInConstruction(ClientScanner.java:160) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ClientScanner.<init>(ClientScanner.java:155) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTable.getScanner(HTable.java:821) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.MetaTableAccessor.fullScan(MetaTableAccessor.java:602) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.MetaTableAccessor.tableExists(MetaTableAccessor.java:366) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HBaseAdmin.tableExists(HBaseAdmin.java:304) at com.plantronics.data.storm.hbasetest.ConnectHBase.main(ConnectHBase.java:51) 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:497) at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:144) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper.ZooKeeperWatcher.getMetaReplicaNodes(ZooKeeperWatcher.java:399) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.zookeeper.MetaTableLocator.blockUntilAvailable(MetaTableLocator.java:552) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ZooKeeperRegistry.getMetaRegionLocation(ZooKeeperRegistry.java:61) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation.locateMeta(ConnectionManager.java:1191) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation.locateRegion(ConnectionManager.java:1158) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.RpcRetryingCallerWithReadReplicas.getRegionLocations(RpcRetryingCallerWithReadReplicas.java:300) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ScannerCallableWithReplicas.call(ScannerCallableWithReplicas.java:151) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ScannerCallableWithReplicas.call(ScannerCallableWithReplicas.java:59) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.RpcRetryingCaller.callWithoutRetries(RpcRetryingCaller.java:200) ... 14 more ... View more