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+/**
+ * Copyright 2009 The Apache Software Foundation
+ *
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.JobContext;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.OutputCommitter;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.TaskAttemptContext;
+
+/**
+ * Small committer class that does not do anything.
+ */
+public class TableOutputCommitter extends OutputCommitter {
+
+  @Override
+  public void abortTask(TaskAttemptContext arg0) throws IOException {
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void cleanupJob(JobContext arg0) throws IOException {
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void commitTask(TaskAttemptContext arg0) throws IOException {
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public boolean needsTaskCommit(TaskAttemptContext arg0) throws IOException {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void setupJob(JobContext arg0) throws IOException {
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void setupTask(TaskAttemptContext arg0) throws IOException {
+  }
+
+}