title: Zookeeper/Kafka with Tomcat - Possible At All?
body: <p>I was wondering if someone has used zookeeper/kafka embeeded within Tomcat. I know that Kafka requires Zookeeper, but does it mean that I have to run Kafka and Zookeeper as separate instances? So far I cannot see any use cases where everything has been bolt in. Could anyone advise?</p>
  
  <p>My question is more around the concept of using zookeeper and kafka as a jar within the same tomcat web application.</p>