Chapter 11. Kafka clients
Chapter 11. Kafka clients The kafka-clients JAR file contains the Kafka Producer and Consumer APIs together with the Kafka AdminClient API. The Producer API allows applications to send data to a Kafka broker. The Consumer API allows applications to consume data from a Kafka broker. The AdminClient API provides functionality for managing Kafka clusters, including topics, brokers, and other components. 11.1. Adding Kafka clients as a dependency to your Maven project This procedure shows you how to add the AMQ Streams Java clients as a dependency to your Maven project. Prerequisites A Maven project with an existing pom.xml . Procedure Add the Red Hat Maven repository to the <repositories> section of your pom.xml file. Add the clients to the <dependencies> section of your pom.xml file. Build your Maven project.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <!-- ... --> <repositories> <repository> <id>redhat-maven</id> <url>https://maven.repository.redhat.com/ga/</url> </repository> </repositories> <!-- ... --> </project> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <!-- ... --> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId> <artifactId>kafka-clients</artifactId> <version>2.7.0.redhat-00005</version> </dependency> </dependencies> <!-- ... --> </project>