diff --git a/docs/mllib-decision-tree.md b/docs/mllib-decision-tree.md
index e55db0ab0deae..e4f77e890b67c 100644
--- a/docs/mllib-decision-tree.md
+++ b/docs/mllib-decision-tree.md
@@ -162,47 +162,64 @@ val labelAndPreds = data.map { point =>
 }
 val trainErr = labelAndPreds.filter(r => r._1 != r._2).count.toDouble / data.count
 println("Training Error = " + trainErr)
+println("Learned classification tree model:\n" + model)
 {% endhighlight %}
 </div>
 
 <div data-lang="java">
 {% highlight java %}
+import java.util.HashMap;
 import scala.Tuple2;
+import org.apache.spark.api.java.function.Function2;
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaPairRDD;
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaRDD;
+import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaSparkContext;
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.function.Function;
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.function.PairFunction;
 import org.apache.spark.mllib.regression.LabeledPoint;
 import org.apache.spark.mllib.tree.DecisionTree;
 import org.apache.spark.mllib.tree.model.DecisionTreeModel;
-
-JavaRDD<LabeledPoint> data = ... // data set
-
-// Train a DecisionTree model.
+import org.apache.spark.mllib.util.MLUtils;
+import org.apache.spark.SparkConf;
+
+SparkConf sparkConf = new SparkConf().setAppName("JavaDecisionTree");
+JavaSparkContext sc = new JavaSparkContext(sparkConf);
+
+String datapath = "data/mllib/sample_libsvm_data.txt";
+JavaRDD<LabeledPoint> data = MLUtils.loadLibSVMFile(sc.sc(), datapath).toJavaRDD();
+// Compute the number of classes from the data.
+Integer numClasses = data.map(new Function<LabeledPoint, Double>() {
+  @Override public Double call(LabeledPoint p) {
+    return p.label();
+  }
+}).countByValue().size();
+
+// Set parameters.
 //  Empty categoricalFeaturesInfo indicates all features are continuous.
-Integer numClasses = ... // number of classes
 HashMap<Integer, Integer> categoricalFeaturesInfo = new HashMap<Integer, Integer>();
 String impurity = "gini";
 Integer maxDepth = 5;
 Integer maxBins = 100;
 
+// Train a DecisionTree model for classification.
 final DecisionTreeModel model = DecisionTree.trainClassifier(data, numClasses,
   categoricalFeaturesInfo, impurity, maxDepth, maxBins);
 
 // Evaluate model on training instances and compute training error
-JavaPairRDD<Double, Double> predictionAndLabel = 
+JavaPairRDD<Double, Double> predictionAndLabel =
   data.mapToPair(new PairFunction<LabeledPoint, Double, Double>() {
     @Override public Tuple2<Double, Double> call(LabeledPoint p) {
       return new Tuple2<Double, Double>(model.predict(p.features()), p.label());
     }
   });
-Double trainErr = 1.0 * predictionAndLabel.filter(new Function<Tuple2<Double, Double>, Boolean>() {
+Double trainErr =
+  1.0 * predictionAndLabel.filter(new Function<Tuple2<Double, Double>, Boolean>() {
     @Override public Boolean call(Tuple2<Double, Double> pl) {
       return !pl._1().equals(pl._2());
     }
   }).count() / data.count();
-System.out.print("Training error: " + trainErr);
-System.out.print("Learned model:\n" + model);
+System.out.println("Training error: " + trainErr);
+System.out.println("Learned classification tree model:\n" + model);
 {% endhighlight %}
 </div>
 
@@ -225,6 +242,8 @@ predictions = model.predict(data.map(lambda x: x.features))
 labelsAndPredictions = data.map(lambda lp: lp.label).zip(predictions)
 trainErr = labelsAndPredictions.filter(lambda (v, p): v != p).count() / float(data.count())
 print('Training Error = ' + str(trainErr))
+print('Learned classification tree model:')
+print(model)
 {% endhighlight %}
 
 Note: When making predictions for a dataset, it is more efficient to do batch prediction rather
@@ -268,47 +287,63 @@ val labelsAndPredictions = data.map { point =>
 }
 val trainMSE = labelsAndPredictions.map{ case(v, p) => math.pow((v - p), 2)}.mean()
 println("Training Mean Squared Error = " + trainMSE)
+println("Learned regression tree model:\n" + model)
 {% endhighlight %}
 </div>
 
 <div data-lang="java">
 {% highlight java %}
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import scala.Tuple2;
+import org.apache.spark.api.java.function.Function2;
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaPairRDD;
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaRDD;
+import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaSparkContext;
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.function.Function;
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.function.PairFunction;
 import org.apache.spark.mllib.regression.LabeledPoint;
 import org.apache.spark.mllib.tree.DecisionTree;
 import org.apache.spark.mllib.tree.model.DecisionTreeModel;
-import scala.Tuple2;
+import org.apache.spark.mllib.util.MLUtils;
+import org.apache.spark.SparkConf;
 
-JavaRDD<LabeledPoint> data = ... // data set
+String datapath = "data/mllib/sample_libsvm_data.txt";
+JavaRDD<LabeledPoint> data = MLUtils.loadLibSVMFile(sc.sc(), datapath).toJavaRDD();
 
-// Train a DecisionTree model.
+SparkConf sparkConf = new SparkConf().setAppName("JavaDecisionTree");
+JavaSparkContext sc = new JavaSparkContext(sparkConf);
+
+// Set parameters.
 //  Empty categoricalFeaturesInfo indicates all features are continuous.
 HashMap<Integer, Integer> categoricalFeaturesInfo = new HashMap<Integer, Integer>();
 String impurity = "variance";
 Integer maxDepth = 5;
 Integer maxBins = 100;
 
+// Train a DecisionTree model.
 final DecisionTreeModel model = DecisionTree.trainRegressor(data,
   categoricalFeaturesInfo, impurity, maxDepth, maxBins);
 
 // Evaluate model on training instances and compute training error
-JavaPairRDD<Double, Double> predictionAndLabel = 
+JavaPairRDD<Double, Double> predictionAndLabel =
   data.mapToPair(new PairFunction<LabeledPoint, Double, Double>() {
     @Override public Tuple2<Double, Double> call(LabeledPoint p) {
       return new Tuple2<Double, Double>(model.predict(p.features()), p.label());
     }
   });
-Double trainMSE = predictionAndLabel.map(new Function<Tuple2<Double, Double>, Double>() {
+Double trainMSE =
+  predictionAndLabel.map(new Function<Tuple2<Double, Double>, Double>() {
     @Override public Double call(Tuple2<Double, Double> pl) {
-      Double diff = pl._1() - pl._2(); 
+      Double diff = pl._1() - pl._2();
       return diff * diff;
     }
-  }).sum() / data.count();
-System.out.print("Training Mean Squared Error: " + trainMSE);
-System.out.print("Learned model:\n" + model);
+  }).reduce(new Function2<Double, Double, Double>() {
+    @Override public Double call(Double a, Double b) {
+      return a + b;
+    }
+  }) / data.count();
+System.out.println("Training Mean Squared Error: " + trainMSE);
+System.out.println("Learned regression tree model:\n" + model);
 {% endhighlight %}
 </div>
 
@@ -331,6 +366,8 @@ predictions = model.predict(data.map(lambda x: x.features))
 labelsAndPredictions = data.map(lambda lp: lp.label).zip(predictions)
 trainMSE = labelsAndPredictions.map(lambda (v, p): (v - p) * (v - p)).sum() / float(data.count())
 print('Training Mean Squared Error = ' + str(trainMSE))
+print('Learned regression tree model:')
+print(model)
 {% endhighlight %}
 
 Note: When making predictions for a dataset, it is more efficient to do batch prediction rather
diff --git a/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/examples/mllib/JavaDecisionTree.java b/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/examples/mllib/JavaDecisionTree.java
index a70d5f40b5252..ee79946ec6f3b 100644
--- a/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/examples/mllib/JavaDecisionTree.java
+++ b/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/examples/mllib/JavaDecisionTree.java
@@ -19,11 +19,10 @@
 
 import java.util.HashMap;
 
-import scala.reflect.ClassTag;
 import scala.Tuple2;
 
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.function.Function2;
-      import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaPairRDD;
+import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaPairRDD;
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaRDD;
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaSparkContext;
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.function.Function;
@@ -34,22 +33,23 @@
 import org.apache.spark.mllib.util.MLUtils;
 import org.apache.spark.SparkConf;
 
-
 /**
  * Classification and regression using decision trees.
  */
 public final class JavaDecisionTree {
 
   public static void main(String[] args) {
-    if (args.length != 1) {
+    String datapath = "data/mllib/sample_libsvm_data.txt";
+    if (args.length == 1) {
+      datapath = args[0];
+    } else if (args.length > 1) {
       System.err.println("Usage: JavaDecisionTree <libsvm format data file>");
       System.exit(1);
     }
     SparkConf sparkConf = new SparkConf().setAppName("JavaDecisionTree");
     JavaSparkContext sc = new JavaSparkContext(sparkConf);
-    String datapath = args[0];
 
-    JavaRDD<LabeledPoint> data = JavaRDD.fromRDD(MLUtils.loadLibSVMFile(sc.sc(), datapath));
+    JavaRDD<LabeledPoint> data = MLUtils.loadLibSVMFile(sc.sc(), datapath).toJavaRDD();
 
     // Compute the number of classes from the data.
     Integer numClasses = data.map(new Function<LabeledPoint, Double>() {
@@ -57,7 +57,9 @@ public static void main(String[] args) {
         return p.label();
       }
     }).countByValue().size();
-    // Empty categoricalFeaturesInfo indicates all features are continuous.
+
+    // Set parameters.
+    //  Empty categoricalFeaturesInfo indicates all features are continuous.
     HashMap<Integer, Integer> categoricalFeaturesInfo = new HashMap<Integer, Integer>();
     String impurity = "gini";
     Integer maxDepth = 5;
@@ -80,12 +82,11 @@ public static void main(String[] args) {
           return !pl._1().equals(pl._2());
         }
       }).count() / data.count();
-    System.out.print("Training error: " + trainErr);
-    System.out.print("Learned classification tree model:\n" + model);
+    System.out.println("Training error: " + trainErr);
+    System.out.println("Learned classification tree model:\n" + model);
 
     // Train a DecisionTree model for regression.
     impurity = "variance";
-
     final DecisionTreeModel regressionModel = DecisionTree.trainRegressor(data,
         categoricalFeaturesInfo, impurity, maxDepth, maxBins);
 
@@ -107,8 +108,8 @@ public static void main(String[] args) {
           return a + b;
         }
       }) / data.count();
-    System.out.print("Training Mean Squared Error: " + trainMSE);
-    System.out.print("Learned regression tree model:\n" + regressionModel);
+    System.out.println("Training Mean Squared Error: " + trainMSE);
+    System.out.println("Learned regression tree model:\n" + regressionModel);
 
     sc.stop();
   }