Hi Sheng Wang, If you look at the Kafka website there is already a IDE setup page you can follow.
Once your IDE is setup you can simply run Kafka via the Kafka main method and set breakpoints in the broker. Tim On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Sheng Wang <shengwan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to learn more about the Kafka code base. One of the easiest ways > that I can think of is to walk through the code with a debugger. Could > anyone tell how I can do that? Can I do it using any IDE? > > Thanks! > > -Sheng