Many beginner Spark programmers encounter a "Task not serializable" exception when they try to break their Spark applications into Java classes. There are a number of posts to instruct developers on how to solve this problem. Also, there are excellent overviews of Spark. Nonetheless, I think it is worthwhile to look at the Spark source code to see where and how tasks get serialized and such exceptions are thrown to better understand those instructions.
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