How to run sample application

Setting up kafka on your system( If not setup)

1. Download Kafka 0.8.0 version from Apache kafka download page. There is no need to download kafka src if you only want to run this application. If you want to customize this application then you need it. Unzip the downloaded Kafka. if you have downloaded src zip then you need to build first. follow below instruction in Linux for building Kafka from source code -./sbt update ./sbt package

2. Kafka is dependent on zookeeper. Start the zookeeper first by following the command - bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh config/zookeeper.properties