Kafka Clients

This section discusses the Kafka clients included with the Confluent Platform including clients for Java, C/C++, Python, and Go.

Advanced use cases for librdkafka are documented in the librdkafka wiki.

Tip

You may also want to take a look at Kafka Streams, which is a powerful, easy-to-use library for building highly scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed stream processing applications on top of Kafka.

• Kafka Consumers
  • Concepts
  • Configuration
  • Initialization
  • Basic Usage
    • Java Client
    • C/C++ Client (librdkafka)
    • Python, Go and .NET Clients
  • Detailed Examples
    • Basic Poll Loop
    • Shutdown with Wakeup
    • Synchronous Commits
    • Asynchronous Commits
  • Administration
    • List Groups
    • Describe Group
• Kafka Producers
  • Concepts
  • Configuration
  • Examples
    • Initial Setup
    • Asynchronous Writes
    • Synchronous Writes
• Confluent’s JMS Client for Apache Kafka
  • Overview
  • Examples
    • Producing messages
    • Consuming messages
  • Requirements
  • Installation
  • JMS 1.1 Compatibility
  • Features
  • Unsupported Features
    • Session
    • ConnectionFactory
    • Connection
  • Developing JMS Clients
    • Dependencies
    • Configure and Create a ConnectionFactory
    • Setting Required Properties
    • Enabling Confluent Specific Features (Optional)
    • Enabling TLS Encryption (Optional)
    • Create a ConnectionFactory
    • Creating a Destination
    • Creating a Connection
    • Creating Sessions
    • Producing / Consuming Messages
  • Threading
• API Docs