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Apache Kafka Connector

The Kafka connector adds support for Kafka to Reactive Messaging. With it you can receive Kafka Records as well as write message into Kafka.

Apache Kafka is a popular distributed streaming platform. It lets you:

  • Publish and subscribe to streams of records, similar to a message queue or enterprise messaging system.

  • Store streams of records in a fault-tolerant durable way.

  • Process streams of records as they occur.

The Kafka cluster stores streams of records in categories called topics. Each record consists of a key, a value, and a timestamp.

For more details about Kafka, check the documentation.

Using the Kafka Connector

To use the Kafka Connector, add the following dependency to your project:

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<dependency>
  <groupId>io.smallrye.reactive</groupId>
  <artifactId>smallrye-reactive-messaging-kafka</artifactId>
  <version>3.24.0</version>
</dependency>

The connector name is: smallrye-kafka.

So, to indicate that a channel is managed by this connector you need:

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# Inbound
mp.messaging.incoming.[channel-name].connector=smallrye-kafka

# Outbound
mp.messaging.outgoing.[channel-name].connector=smallrye-kafka