To build project: sbt assembly To run project: java -jar server/target/zipkin-jaxrs-2.0-server-assembly-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar java -jar client/target/zipkin-jaxrs-2.0-client-assembly-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar Or, alternatively: sbt 'project server' 'run-main com.example.server.ServerStarter' sbt 'project client' 'run-main com.example.client.ClientStarter' To run Apache Zookeeper (assuming it's downloaded and unpacked) cp zookeeper-3.4.5/conf/zoo_sample.cfg zookeeper-3.4.5/conf/zoo.cfg zookeeper-3.4.5/bin/zkServer.sh start To run Zipkin (assuming it's cloned from https://github.com/twitter/zipkin): bin/collector bin/query bin/web