Apache Oozie has a Java client and a Java API for submitting and monitoring jobs, but what if you want to use Oozie from another language or a non-Java system? Oozie provides a Web Services API, which is an HTTP REST API. That is, you can do anything with Oozie simply by making requests to the Oozie server over HTTP. In fact, this is how the Oozie client and Oozie Java API themselves talk to the Oozie server.
In this how-to,
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