I managed to create a UDF, successfully compiled it and packaged it in a customudf.jar file that is located here on a HDP 2.4 sandbox: /user/maria_dev/customudf.jar. I start my PIG script with REGISTER customudf.jar ...and I created a entry the web interface for UDF as follows: UDFs Name: customudf Path: /user/maria_dev/customudf.jar Owner : maria_dev Yet, when I run my PIG script the line customudf.xformation(f1) generates a non descript error: ERROR org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt - ERROR 101: file 'customudf.jar' does not exist. What am I missing? ... View more