This is a simple word-count project to run a word count on a set of strings using Apache Storm. it contains the input Spout of random strings out of which these strings are sent to at random to the Bolts- first for splitting and then on to the next bolt for counting of the words and outputting on the console. The maven project is run using the command
compile exec:java -Dstorm.topology=com.microsoft.example.WordCountTopology
from the source directory of the project.