i follow the tutorial on https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/0.8.0+Producer+Example, but got the following error
exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: example.producer.SimplePartitioner at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:191) at kafka.utils.Utils$.createObject(Utils.scala:435) at kafka.producer.Producer.<init>(Producer.scala:61) at kafka.javaapi.producer.Producer.<init>(Producer.scala:26) at TestProducer.run(TestProducer.java:41) at Main.main(Main.java:11) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:140) Here is my producer <http://ideone.com/EuffMq> and SimplePartitioner <http://ideone.com/1R2RsK>. No solution in the internet related to the problem above. anything is missing in the tutorial? Thanks. Willy