title: How to know status of Kafka broker in java?
body: <p>i am working on apache storm which has a topolgy main class. This topology contains the kafkaSpout which listen a kafka topic over a kafka broker. Now before i submit this topology i want to make sure the status of the kafka broker which has the topic. But i didnt found any way to do it? How a kafka brokers status can be known from storm tolopogy class ? Please help...</p>