diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index c4f3f7b626..d44f3aaa82 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -418,6 +418,9 @@ Release 0.23.0 - Unreleased
     HADOOP-7469  Add a standard handler for socket connection problems which
                  improves diagnostics (Uma Maheswara Rao G  and stevel via stevel)
 
+    HADOOP-7710. Added hadoop-setup-application.sh for creating 
+    application directory (Arpit Gupta via Eric Yang)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
   
     HADOOP-7333. Performance improvement in PureJavaCrc32. (Eric Caspole
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/hadoop-setup-applications.sh b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/hadoop-setup-applications.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..521c1599c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/hadoop-setup-applications.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# 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.
+this="${BASH_SOURCE-$0}"
+bin=$(cd -P -- "$(dirname -- "$this")" && pwd -P)
+script="$(basename -- "$this")"
+this="$bin/$script"
+
+. "$bin"/../libexec/hadoop-config.sh
+
+usage() {
+  echo "
+usage: $0 <parameters>
+  Require parameter:
+     --config /etc/hadoop                                  Location of Hadoop configuration file
+     --apps=<csl of apps:user hcat:hcat,hbase,hive:user>   Apps you want to setup on hdfs
+                                                           If user is not specified, app name
+                                                           will be used as the user name as well
+  Optional parameters:
+     -h                                                    Display this message
+     --kerberos-realm=KERBEROS.EXAMPLE.COM                 Set Kerberos realm
+     --super-user=hdfs                                     Set super user id
+     --super-user-keytab=/etc/security/keytabs/hdfs.keytab Set super user keytab location
+  "
+  exit 1
+}
+
+OPTS=$(getopt \
+  -n $0 \
+  -o '' \
+  -l 'kerberos-realm:' \
+  -l 'super-user:' \
+  -l 'super-user-keytab:' \
+  -l 'apps:' \
+  -o 'h' \
+  -- "$@")
+
+if [ $? != 0 ] ; then
+    usage
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+function setup_apps
+{
+  if [ -z $APPS ] 
+  then
+    usage
+    break
+  fi
+
+  #if super user is not set default to hdfs
+  HADOOP_HDFS_USER=${HADOOP_HDFS_USER:-hdfs}
+
+  if [ ! "${KERBEROS_REALM}" = "" ]; then
+    # locate kinit cmd
+    if [ -e /etc/lsb-release ]; then
+      KINIT_CMD="/usr/bin/kinit -kt ${HDFS_USER_KEYTAB} ${HADOOP_HDFS_USER}"
+    else
+      KINIT_CMD="/usr/kerberos/bin/kinit -kt ${HDFS_USER_KEYTAB} ${HADOOP_HDFS_USER}"
+    fi
+    su -c "${KINIT_CMD}" ${HADOOP_HDFS_USER}
+  fi
+  #process each app
+  oldIFS=$IFS 
+  IFS=','
+  for app in $APPS
+  do
+    IFS=":"
+    arr=($app)
+    app=${arr[0]}
+    user=${arr[1]}
+    IFS=','
+    #if user is empty, default it to app
+    if [ -z $user ]
+    then
+      user=$app
+    fi
+    
+    path="/apps/${app}"
+
+    #create the dir
+    cmd="su -c '${HADOOP_PREFIX}/bin/hadoop --config ${HADOOP_CONF_DIR} dfs -mkdir ${path}' ${HADOOP_HDFS_USER}"
+    echo $cmd
+    eval $cmd
+
+    #make owner to be the app
+    cmd="su -c '${HADOOP_PREFIX}/bin/hadoop --config ${HADOOP_CONF_DIR} dfs -chown ${user} ${path}' ${HADOOP_HDFS_USER}"
+    echo $cmd
+    eval $cmd
+
+    if [ "$?" == "0" ]; then
+      echo "App directory has been setup: ${path}"
+    fi
+  done
+  IFS=$oldIFS
+}
+
+eval set -- "${OPTS}"
+while true; do
+  case "$1" in
+    --apps)
+      APPS=$2; shift 2
+      ;;
+    --kerberos-realm)
+      KERBEROS_REALM=$2; shift 2
+      ;;
+    --super-user)
+      HADOOP_HDFS_USER=$2; shift 2
+      ;;
+    --super-user-keytab)
+      HDFS_USER_KEYTAB=$2; shift 2
+      ;;
+    -h)
+      usage
+      ;; 
+    --)
+      shift ; break
+      ;;
+    *)
+      echo "Unknown option: $1"
+      usage
+      exit 1 
+      ;;
+  esac
+done
+
+setup_apps