Hi, When you run the topology in local mode: https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki/Local-mode - You can call cluster.shutdown(); to kill the topology. - If you are running it from eclipse, it is fine even if you kill the running application.
When you run the topology in cluster mode: https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki/Running-topologies-on-a-production-cluster -You have to issue the "storm kill topologyname" command to kill the topology Once you kill the topology running in cluster mode, you can restart the same topology in that cluster without changing its name. Richards Peter.
