apache/incubator-spark — pull request #622 by ahirreddy (2014-02-20 22:35:45+00:00)
Title: Allow PySpark to use existing JVM and Gateway

Patch to allow PySpark to use existing JVM and Gateway. Changes to PySpark implementation of SparkConf to take existing SparkConf JVM handle. Change to PySpark SparkContext to allow subclass specific context initialization.