Before we start this section, the assumption is that you have gone through the prerequisites and installed the expected components.
To understand the components described in the previous section, let's download the Storm-starter project and execute a sample topology:
The Storm-starter project can be downloaded using the following Git command:
Linux-command-Prompt $ sudo git clone git://github.com/apache/incubator-storm.git && cd incubator-storm/examples/storm-starter
Next, you need to import the project into your Eclipse workspace:
Start Eclipse.
Click on the File menu and select the Import wizard.
From the Import wizard, select Existing Maven Projects.
Select pom.xml in the Storm-starter project and specify it as
<download-folder>/starter/incubator-storm/examples/storm-starter
.Once the project has been successfully imported, the Eclipse folder structure will look like the following screenshot...