Chapter 2. Client development prerequisites


The following prerequisites are required for developing clients to use with Streams for Apache Kafka.

  • You have a Red Hat account.
  • You have a Kafka cluster running in Streams for Apache Kafka.
  • Kafka brokers are configured with listeners for secure client connections.
  • Topics have been created for your cluster.
  • You have an IDE to develop and test your client.
  • A supported JDK is installed. For more information, see the Streams for Apache Kafka Release Notes.
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