# Annotations for MapReduce

What is Mara?

Mara is a design and implementation for developing Hadoop MapReduce jobs in Java. Mara grew out of the need to simplify and standardize the process in use at Conversant.

See the full wiki documentation for more information.

Using with Maven

<dependency>
   <groupId>com.conversantmedia</groupId>
   <artifactId>mara-core</artifactId>
   <version>0.9.2</version>
</dependency>

<!-- test dependency -->
<dependency>
   <groupId>com.conversantmedia</groupId>
   <artifactId>mara-test</artifactId>
   <version>0.9.2</version>
   <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>