Please read carefully as the 'menu options' have changed. This module has proto files used by core. These protos overlap with protos that are used by coprocessor endpoints (CPEP) in the module hbase-protocol. So the core versions have a different name, the generated classes are relocated -- i.e. shaded -- to a new location; they are moved from org.apache.hadoop.hbase.* to org.apache.hadoop.hbase.shaded. This module also includes the protobuf that hbase core depends on again relocated to live at an offset of org.apache.hadoop.hbase.shaded so as to avoid clashes with other versions of protobuf resident on our CLASSPATH included, transitively or otherwise, by dependencies: i.e. the shaded protobuf Message class is at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.shaded.com.google.protobuf.Message rather than at com.google.protobuf.Message. Below we describe how to generate the java files for this module. Run this step any time you change the proto files in this module or if you change the protobuf version. If you add a new file, be sure to add mention of the proto in the pom.xml (scroll till you see the listing of protos to consider). First ensure that the appropriate protobuf protoc tool is in your $PATH as in: $ export PATH=~/bin/protobuf-3.1.0/src:$PATH .. or pass -Dprotoc.path=PATH_TO_PROTOC when running the below mvn commands. You may need to download protobuf and build protoc first. Run: $ mvn install -Dgenerate-shaded-classes or $ mvn install -Pgenerate-shaded-classes to build and trigger the special generate-shaded-classes profile. When finished, the content of src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/shaded will have been updated. Check in the changes. See the pom.xml under the generate-shaded-classes profile for more info on how this step works.