diff --git a/yarn/alpha/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/yarn/WorkerRunnable.scala b/yarn/alpha/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/yarn/WorkerRunnable.scala
index 1c28d6c86d3cd41ef9e81ffcce5b07254144923a..8c686e393f4f8b4ea9ca4acf6d13f1f9e8641306 100644
--- a/yarn/alpha/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/yarn/WorkerRunnable.scala
+++ b/yarn/alpha/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/yarn/WorkerRunnable.scala
@@ -25,12 +25,10 @@ import scala.collection.JavaConversions._
 import scala.collection.mutable.HashMap
 
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration
-import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.DataOutputBuffer
 import org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils
 import org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api._
-import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.ApplicationConstants.Environment
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records._
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.protocolrecords._
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.conf.YarnConfiguration
@@ -43,16 +41,17 @@ import org.apache.spark.{SparkConf, Logging}
 class WorkerRunnable(
     container: Container,
     conf: Configuration,
-    sparkConf: SparkConf,
+    spConf: SparkConf,
     masterAddress: String,
     slaveId: String,
     hostname: String,
     workerMemory: Int,
     workerCores: Int) 
-  extends Runnable with Logging {
+  extends Runnable with WorkerRunnableUtil with Logging {
 
   var rpc: YarnRPC = YarnRPC.create(conf)
   var cm: ContainerManager = _
+  val sparkConf = spConf
   val yarnConf: YarnConfiguration = new YarnConfiguration(conf)
 
   def run = {
@@ -75,43 +74,6 @@ class WorkerRunnable(
     val env = prepareEnvironment
     ctx.setEnvironment(env)
 
-    // Extra options for the JVM
-    var JAVA_OPTS = ""
-    // Set the JVM memory
-    val workerMemoryString = workerMemory + "m"
-    JAVA_OPTS += "-Xms" + workerMemoryString + " -Xmx" + workerMemoryString + " "
-    if (env.isDefinedAt("SPARK_JAVA_OPTS")) {
-      JAVA_OPTS += env("SPARK_JAVA_OPTS") + " "
-    }
-
-    JAVA_OPTS += " -Djava.io.tmpdir=" + 
-      new Path(Environment.PWD.$(), YarnConfiguration.DEFAULT_CONTAINER_TEMP_DIR) + " "
-
-    // Commenting it out for now - so that people can refer to the properties if required. Remove
-    // it once cpuset version is pushed out.
-    // The context is, default gc for server class machines end up using all cores to do gc - hence
-    // if there are multiple containers in same node, spark gc effects all other containers
-    // performance (which can also be other spark containers)
-    // Instead of using this, rely on cpusets by YARN to enforce spark behaves 'properly' in
-    // multi-tenant environments. Not sure how default java gc behaves if it is limited to subset
-    // of cores on a node.
-/*
-    else {
-      // If no java_opts specified, default to using -XX:+CMSIncrementalMode
-      // It might be possible that other modes/config is being done in SPARK_JAVA_OPTS, so we dont
-      // want to mess with it.
-      // In our expts, using (default) throughput collector has severe perf ramnifications in
-      // multi-tennent machines
-      // The options are based on
-      // http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/gc-tuning-5-138395.html#0.0.0.%20When%20to%20Use%20the%20Concurrent%20Low%20Pause%20Collector|outline
-      JAVA_OPTS += " -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC "
-      JAVA_OPTS += " -XX:+CMSIncrementalMode "
-      JAVA_OPTS += " -XX:+CMSIncrementalPacing "
-      JAVA_OPTS += " -XX:CMSIncrementalDutyCycleMin=0 "
-      JAVA_OPTS += " -XX:CMSIncrementalDutyCycle=10 "
-    }
-*/
-
     ctx.setUser(UserGroupInformation.getCurrentUser().getShortUserName())
 
     val credentials = UserGroupInformation.getCurrentUser().getCredentials()
@@ -119,28 +81,7 @@ class WorkerRunnable(
     credentials.writeTokenStorageToStream(dob)
     ctx.setContainerTokens(ByteBuffer.wrap(dob.getData()))
 
-    var javaCommand = "java"
-    val javaHome = System.getenv("JAVA_HOME")
-    if ((javaHome != null && !javaHome.isEmpty()) || env.isDefinedAt("JAVA_HOME")) {
-      javaCommand = Environment.JAVA_HOME.$() + "/bin/java"
-    }
-
-    val commands = List[String](javaCommand +
-      " -server " +
-      // Kill if OOM is raised - leverage yarn's failure handling to cause rescheduling.
-      // Not killing the task leaves various aspects of the worker and (to some extent) the jvm in
-      // an inconsistent state.
-      // TODO: If the OOM is not recoverable by rescheduling it on different node, then do
-      // 'something' to fail job ... akin to blacklisting trackers in mapred ?
-      " -XX:OnOutOfMemoryError='kill %p' " +
-      JAVA_OPTS +
-      " org.apache.spark.executor.CoarseGrainedExecutorBackend " +
-      masterAddress + " " +
-      slaveId + " " +
-      hostname + " " +
-      workerCores +
-      " 1> " + ApplicationConstants.LOG_DIR_EXPANSION_VAR + "/stdout" +
-      " 2> " + ApplicationConstants.LOG_DIR_EXPANSION_VAR + "/stderr")
+    val commands = prepareCommand(masterAddress, slaveId, hostname, workerMemory, workerCores)
     logInfo("Setting up worker with commands: " + commands)
     ctx.setCommands(commands)
 
@@ -151,65 +92,6 @@ class WorkerRunnable(
     cm.startContainer(startReq)
   }
 
-  private def setupDistributedCache(
-      file: String,
-      rtype: LocalResourceType,
-      localResources: HashMap[String, LocalResource],
-      timestamp: String,
-      size: String, 
-      vis: String) = {
-    val uri = new URI(file)
-    val amJarRsrc = Records.newRecord(classOf[LocalResource]).asInstanceOf[LocalResource]
-    amJarRsrc.setType(rtype)
-    amJarRsrc.setVisibility(LocalResourceVisibility.valueOf(vis))
-    amJarRsrc.setResource(ConverterUtils.getYarnUrlFromURI(uri))
-    amJarRsrc.setTimestamp(timestamp.toLong)
-    amJarRsrc.setSize(size.toLong)
-    localResources(uri.getFragment()) = amJarRsrc
-  }
-
-  def prepareLocalResources: HashMap[String, LocalResource] = {
-    logInfo("Preparing Local resources")
-    val localResources = HashMap[String, LocalResource]()
-
-    if (System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_FILES") != null) {
-      val timeStamps = System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_FILES_TIME_STAMPS").split(',')
-      val fileSizes = System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_FILES_FILE_SIZES").split(',')
-      val distFiles = System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_FILES").split(',')
-      val visibilities = System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_FILES_VISIBILITIES").split(',')
-      for( i <- 0 to distFiles.length - 1) {
-        setupDistributedCache(distFiles(i), LocalResourceType.FILE, localResources, timeStamps(i),
-          fileSizes(i), visibilities(i))
-      }
-    }
-
-    if (System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_ARCHIVES") != null) {
-      val timeStamps = System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_ARCHIVES_TIME_STAMPS").split(',')
-      val fileSizes = System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_ARCHIVES_FILE_SIZES").split(',')
-      val distArchives = System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_ARCHIVES").split(',')
-      val visibilities = System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_ARCHIVES_VISIBILITIES").split(',')
-      for( i <- 0 to distArchives.length - 1) {
-        setupDistributedCache(distArchives(i), LocalResourceType.ARCHIVE, localResources, 
-          timeStamps(i), fileSizes(i), visibilities(i))
-      }
-    }
-
-    logInfo("Prepared Local resources " + localResources)
-    localResources
-  }
-
-  def prepareEnvironment: HashMap[String, String] = {
-    val env = new HashMap[String, String]()
-
-    ClientBase.populateClasspath(yarnConf, sparkConf, System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_LOG4J_PATH") != null, env)
-
-    // Allow users to specify some environment variables
-    Apps.setEnvFromInputString(env, System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_USER_ENV"))
-
-    System.getenv().filterKeys(_.startsWith("SPARK")).foreach { case (k,v) => env(k) = v }
-    env
-  }
-
   def connectToCM: ContainerManager = {
     val cmHostPortStr = container.getNodeId().getHost() + ":" + container.getNodeId().getPort()
     val cmAddress = NetUtils.createSocketAddr(cmHostPortStr)
diff --git a/yarn/common/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/yarn/WorkerRunnableUtil.scala b/yarn/common/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/yarn/WorkerRunnableUtil.scala
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3c9379de8433f24ce4ea583ef50524d63a0d34d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/yarn/common/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/yarn/WorkerRunnableUtil.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,175 @@
+/*
+ * 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.spark.deploy.yarn
+
+import java.net.URI
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer
+import java.security.PrivilegedExceptionAction
+
+import scala.collection.JavaConversions._
+import scala.collection.mutable.HashMap
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path
+import org.apache.hadoop.io.DataOutputBuffer
+import org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils
+import org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation
+import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api._
+import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.ApplicationConstants.Environment
+import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records._
+import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.protocolrecords._
+import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.util.{Apps, ConverterUtils, Records}
+
+import org.apache.spark.{SparkConf, Logging}
+import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.conf.YarnConfiguration
+
+
+trait WorkerRunnableUtil extends Logging {
+
+  val yarnConf: YarnConfiguration
+  val sparkConf: SparkConf
+  lazy val env = prepareEnvironment
+
+  def prepareCommand(masterAddress: String,
+                     slaveId: String,
+                     hostname: String,
+                     workerMemory: Int,
+                     workerCores: Int) = {
+    // Extra options for the JVM
+    var JAVA_OPTS = ""
+    // Set the JVM memory
+    val workerMemoryString = workerMemory + "m"
+    JAVA_OPTS += "-Xms" + workerMemoryString + " -Xmx" + workerMemoryString + " "
+    if (env.isDefinedAt("SPARK_JAVA_OPTS")) {
+      JAVA_OPTS += env("SPARK_JAVA_OPTS") + " "
+    }
+
+    JAVA_OPTS += " -Djava.io.tmpdir=" +
+      new Path(Environment.PWD.$(), YarnConfiguration.DEFAULT_CONTAINER_TEMP_DIR) + " "
+
+    // Commenting it out for now - so that people can refer to the properties if required. Remove
+    // it once cpuset version is pushed out.
+    // The context is, default gc for server class machines end up using all cores to do gc - hence
+    // if there are multiple containers in same node, spark gc effects all other containers
+    // performance (which can also be other spark containers)
+    // Instead of using this, rely on cpusets by YARN to enforce spark behaves 'properly' in
+    // multi-tenant environments. Not sure how default java gc behaves if it is limited to subset
+    // of cores on a node.
+    /*
+        else {
+          // If no java_opts specified, default to using -XX:+CMSIncrementalMode
+          // It might be possible that other modes/config is being done in SPARK_JAVA_OPTS, so we dont
+          // want to mess with it.
+          // In our expts, using (default) throughput collector has severe perf ramnifications in
+          // multi-tennent machines
+          // The options are based on
+          // http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/gc-tuning-5-138395.html#0.0.0.%20When%20to%20Use%20the%20Concurrent%20Low%20Pause%20Collector|outline
+          JAVA_OPTS += " -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC "
+          JAVA_OPTS += " -XX:+CMSIncrementalMode "
+          JAVA_OPTS += " -XX:+CMSIncrementalPacing "
+          JAVA_OPTS += " -XX:CMSIncrementalDutyCycleMin=0 "
+          JAVA_OPTS += " -XX:CMSIncrementalDutyCycle=10 "
+        }
+    */
+
+    var javaCommand = "java"
+    val javaHome = System.getenv("JAVA_HOME")
+    if ((javaHome != null && !javaHome.isEmpty()) || env.isDefinedAt("JAVA_HOME")) {
+      javaCommand = Environment.JAVA_HOME.$() + "/bin/java"
+    }
+
+    val commands = List[String](javaCommand +
+      " -server " +
+      // Kill if OOM is raised - leverage yarn's failure handling to cause rescheduling.
+      // Not killing the task leaves various aspects of the worker and (to some extent) the jvm in
+      // an inconsistent state.
+      // TODO: If the OOM is not recoverable by rescheduling it on different node, then do
+      // 'something' to fail job ... akin to blacklisting trackers in mapred ?
+      " -XX:OnOutOfMemoryError='kill %p' " +
+      JAVA_OPTS +
+      " org.apache.spark.executor.CoarseGrainedExecutorBackend " +
+      masterAddress + " " +
+      slaveId + " " +
+      hostname + " " +
+      workerCores +
+      " 1> " + ApplicationConstants.LOG_DIR_EXPANSION_VAR + "/stdout" +
+      " 2> " + ApplicationConstants.LOG_DIR_EXPANSION_VAR + "/stderr")
+
+    commands
+  }
+
+  private def setupDistributedCache(
+      file: String,
+      rtype: LocalResourceType,
+      localResources: HashMap[String, LocalResource],
+      timestamp: String,
+      size: String, 
+      vis: String) = {
+    val uri = new URI(file)
+    val amJarRsrc = Records.newRecord(classOf[LocalResource]).asInstanceOf[LocalResource]
+    amJarRsrc.setType(rtype)
+    amJarRsrc.setVisibility(LocalResourceVisibility.valueOf(vis))
+    amJarRsrc.setResource(ConverterUtils.getYarnUrlFromURI(uri))
+    amJarRsrc.setTimestamp(timestamp.toLong)
+    amJarRsrc.setSize(size.toLong)
+    localResources(uri.getFragment()) = amJarRsrc
+  }
+
+  def prepareLocalResources: HashMap[String, LocalResource] = {
+    logInfo("Preparing Local resources")
+    val localResources = HashMap[String, LocalResource]()
+
+    if (System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_FILES") != null) {
+      val timeStamps = System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_FILES_TIME_STAMPS").split(',')
+      val fileSizes = System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_FILES_FILE_SIZES").split(',')
+      val distFiles = System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_FILES").split(',')
+      val visibilities = System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_FILES_VISIBILITIES").split(',')
+      for( i <- 0 to distFiles.length - 1) {
+        setupDistributedCache(distFiles(i), LocalResourceType.FILE, localResources, timeStamps(i),
+          fileSizes(i), visibilities(i))
+      }
+    }
+
+    if (System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_ARCHIVES") != null) {
+      val timeStamps = System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_ARCHIVES_TIME_STAMPS").split(',')
+      val fileSizes = System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_ARCHIVES_FILE_SIZES").split(',')
+      val distArchives = System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_ARCHIVES").split(',')
+      val visibilities = System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_ARCHIVES_VISIBILITIES").split(',')
+      for( i <- 0 to distArchives.length - 1) {
+        setupDistributedCache(distArchives(i), LocalResourceType.ARCHIVE, localResources, 
+          timeStamps(i), fileSizes(i), visibilities(i))
+      }
+    }
+
+    logInfo("Prepared Local resources " + localResources)
+    localResources
+  }
+
+  def prepareEnvironment: HashMap[String, String] = {
+    val env = new HashMap[String, String]()
+
+    ClientBase.populateClasspath(yarnConf, sparkConf, System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_LOG4J_PATH") != null, env)
+
+    // Allow users to specify some environment variables
+    Apps.setEnvFromInputString(env, System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_USER_ENV"))
+
+    System.getenv().filterKeys(_.startsWith("SPARK")).foreach { case (k,v) => env(k) = v }
+    env
+  }
+
+}
diff --git a/yarn/stable/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/yarn/WorkerRunnable.scala b/yarn/stable/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/yarn/WorkerRunnable.scala
index 06d40dfe7fc371825977fb85f31c36173e6d19bc..ab4a79be704857daac32f061e5be509c03d90330 100644
--- a/yarn/stable/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/yarn/WorkerRunnable.scala
+++ b/yarn/stable/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/yarn/WorkerRunnable.scala
@@ -17,20 +17,16 @@
 
 package org.apache.spark.deploy.yarn
 
-import java.net.URI
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer
 import java.security.PrivilegedExceptionAction
 
 import scala.collection.JavaConversions._
-import scala.collection.mutable.HashMap
 
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration
-import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.DataOutputBuffer
 import org.apache.hadoop.net.NetUtils
 import org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api._
-import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.ApplicationConstants.Environment
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records._
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.impl.pb.ProtoUtils
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.protocolrecords._
@@ -45,16 +41,17 @@ import org.apache.spark.{SparkConf, Logging}
 class WorkerRunnable(
     container: Container,
     conf: Configuration,
-    sparkConf: SparkConf,
+    spConf: SparkConf,
     masterAddress: String,
     slaveId: String,
     hostname: String,
     workerMemory: Int,
     workerCores: Int) 
-  extends Runnable with Logging {
+  extends Runnable with WorkerRunnableUtil with Logging {
 
   var rpc: YarnRPC = YarnRPC.create(conf)
   var nmClient: NMClient = _
+  val sparkConf = spConf
   val yarnConf: YarnConfiguration = new YarnConfiguration(conf)
 
   def run = {
@@ -74,73 +71,15 @@ class WorkerRunnable(
     val localResources = prepareLocalResources
     ctx.setLocalResources(localResources)
 
-    val env = prepareEnvironment
     ctx.setEnvironment(env)
 
-    // Extra options for the JVM
-    var JAVA_OPTS = ""
-    // Set the JVM memory
-    val workerMemoryString = workerMemory + "m"
-    JAVA_OPTS += "-Xms" + workerMemoryString + " -Xmx" + workerMemoryString + " "
-    if (env.isDefinedAt("SPARK_JAVA_OPTS")) {
-      JAVA_OPTS += env("SPARK_JAVA_OPTS") + " "
-    }
-
-    JAVA_OPTS += " -Djava.io.tmpdir=" + 
-      new Path(Environment.PWD.$(), YarnConfiguration.DEFAULT_CONTAINER_TEMP_DIR) + " "
-
-    // Commenting it out for now - so that people can refer to the properties if required. Remove
-    // it once cpuset version is pushed out.
-    // The context is, default gc for server class machines end up using all cores to do gc - hence
-    // if there are multiple containers in same node, spark gc effects all other containers
-    // performance (which can also be other spark containers)
-    // Instead of using this, rely on cpusets by YARN to enforce spark behaves 'properly' in
-    // multi-tenant environments. Not sure how default java gc behaves if it is limited to subset
-    // of cores on a node.
-/*
-    else {
-      // If no java_opts specified, default to using -XX:+CMSIncrementalMode
-      // It might be possible that other modes/config is being done in SPARK_JAVA_OPTS, so we dont
-      // want to mess with it.
-      // In our expts, using (default) throughput collector has severe perf ramnifications in
-      // multi-tennent machines
-      // The options are based on
-      // http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/gc-tuning-5-138395.html#0.0.0.%20When%20to%20Use%20the%20Concurrent%20Low%20Pause%20Collector|outline
-      JAVA_OPTS += " -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC "
-      JAVA_OPTS += " -XX:+CMSIncrementalMode "
-      JAVA_OPTS += " -XX:+CMSIncrementalPacing "
-      JAVA_OPTS += " -XX:CMSIncrementalDutyCycleMin=0 "
-      JAVA_OPTS += " -XX:CMSIncrementalDutyCycle=10 "
-    }
-*/
-
     val credentials = UserGroupInformation.getCurrentUser().getCredentials()
     val dob = new DataOutputBuffer()
     credentials.writeTokenStorageToStream(dob)
     ctx.setTokens(ByteBuffer.wrap(dob.getData()))
 
-    var javaCommand = "java"
-    val javaHome = System.getenv("JAVA_HOME")
-    if ((javaHome != null && !javaHome.isEmpty()) || env.isDefinedAt("JAVA_HOME")) {
-      javaCommand = Environment.JAVA_HOME.$() + "/bin/java"
-    }
-
-    val commands = List[String](javaCommand +
-      " -server " +
-      // Kill if OOM is raised - leverage yarn's failure handling to cause rescheduling.
-      // Not killing the task leaves various aspects of the worker and (to some extent) the jvm in
-      // an inconsistent state.
-      // TODO: If the OOM is not recoverable by rescheduling it on different node, then do
-      // 'something' to fail job ... akin to blacklisting trackers in mapred ?
-      " -XX:OnOutOfMemoryError='kill %p' " +
-      JAVA_OPTS +
-      " org.apache.spark.executor.CoarseGrainedExecutorBackend " +
-      masterAddress + " " +
-      slaveId + " " +
-      hostname + " " +
-      workerCores +
-      " 1> " + ApplicationConstants.LOG_DIR_EXPANSION_VAR + "/stdout" +
-      " 2> " + ApplicationConstants.LOG_DIR_EXPANSION_VAR + "/stderr")
+    val commands = prepareCommand(masterAddress, slaveId, hostname, workerMemory, workerCores)
+
     logInfo("Setting up worker with commands: " + commands)
     ctx.setCommands(commands)
 
@@ -148,63 +87,4 @@ class WorkerRunnable(
     nmClient.startContainer(container, ctx)
   }
 
-  private def setupDistributedCache(
-      file: String,
-      rtype: LocalResourceType,
-      localResources: HashMap[String, LocalResource],
-      timestamp: String,
-      size: String, 
-      vis: String) = {
-    val uri = new URI(file)
-    val amJarRsrc = Records.newRecord(classOf[LocalResource]).asInstanceOf[LocalResource]
-    amJarRsrc.setType(rtype)
-    amJarRsrc.setVisibility(LocalResourceVisibility.valueOf(vis))
-    amJarRsrc.setResource(ConverterUtils.getYarnUrlFromURI(uri))
-    amJarRsrc.setTimestamp(timestamp.toLong)
-    amJarRsrc.setSize(size.toLong)
-    localResources(uri.getFragment()) = amJarRsrc
-  }
-
-  def prepareLocalResources: HashMap[String, LocalResource] = {
-    logInfo("Preparing Local resources")
-    val localResources = HashMap[String, LocalResource]()
-
-    if (System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_FILES") != null) {
-      val timeStamps = System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_FILES_TIME_STAMPS").split(',')
-      val fileSizes = System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_FILES_FILE_SIZES").split(',')
-      val distFiles = System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_FILES").split(',')
-      val visibilities = System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_FILES_VISIBILITIES").split(',')
-      for( i <- 0 to distFiles.length - 1) {
-        setupDistributedCache(distFiles(i), LocalResourceType.FILE, localResources, timeStamps(i),
-          fileSizes(i), visibilities(i))
-      }
-    }
-
-    if (System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_ARCHIVES") != null) {
-      val timeStamps = System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_ARCHIVES_TIME_STAMPS").split(',')
-      val fileSizes = System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_ARCHIVES_FILE_SIZES").split(',')
-      val distArchives = System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_ARCHIVES").split(',')
-      val visibilities = System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_CACHE_ARCHIVES_VISIBILITIES").split(',')
-      for( i <- 0 to distArchives.length - 1) {
-        setupDistributedCache(distArchives(i), LocalResourceType.ARCHIVE, localResources, 
-          timeStamps(i), fileSizes(i), visibilities(i))
-      }
-    }
-
-    logInfo("Prepared Local resources " + localResources)
-    localResources
-  }
-
-  def prepareEnvironment: HashMap[String, String] = {
-    val env = new HashMap[String, String]()
-
-    ClientBase.populateClasspath(yarnConf, sparkConf, System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_LOG4J_PATH") != null, env)
-
-    // Allow users to specify some environment variables
-    Apps.setEnvFromInputString(env, System.getenv("SPARK_YARN_USER_ENV"))
-
-    System.getenv().filterKeys(_.startsWith("SPARK")).foreach { case (k,v) => env(k) = v }
-    env
-  }
-
 }