Chapter 9. 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.
9.1. 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
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A Maven project with an existing
pom.xml.
Procedure
Add the Red Hat Maven repository to the
<repositories>section of yourpom.xmlfile.<?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>Add the clients to the
<dependencies>section of yourpom.xmlfile.<?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>2.3.0.redhat-00003</version> </dependency> </dependencies> <!-- ... --> </project>- Build your Maven project.
