Kafka Quickstart: What Dependencies do I need?

Question

I am working through the kafka quickstart:

http://kafka.apache.org/07/quickstart.html

and the basic Consumer Group example:

https://cwiki.apache.org/conf

Answer 1

This seems to work :

$ git clone https://github.com/buildlackey/cep
$ cd cep/kafka-0.8.x
$ mvn package
$ mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass=TestKafkaProducer

(via where can I find maven repository for kafka? )

Answer 2

I found this configuration of dependencies to be functional:

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
        <version>3.2.4.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
        <version>3.2.4.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
        <artifactId>kafka_2.9.2</artifactId>
        <version>0.8.0-beta1</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.inject</groupId>
        <artifactId>javax.inject</artifactId>
        <version>1</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
        <artifactId>scala-library</artifactId>
        <version>2.9.2</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>log4j</groupId>
        <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
        <version>1.2.17</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.101tec</groupId>
        <artifactId>zkclient</artifactId>
        <version>0.3</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.yammer.metrics</groupId>
        <artifactId>metrics-core</artifactId>
        <version>2.2.0</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Answer 3

The problem is that kafka beta was built in a way that pom generated with a jar isn't valid and maven could not recognize it and parse properly, thus fetching transitive dependencies. We've managed to mitigate this problem by enlisting all of the dependencies from that pom (scala, zk, etc) in our pom definition. We're waiting for next beta builds of kafka, in which problem will be fixed.

Full dependencies list is below. Note that you have to change scala version dependency accordingly to the postfix of your kafka artifact.

<dependency>
            <groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
            <artifactId>scala-library</artifactId>
            <version>2.8.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>log4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
            <version>1.2.15</version>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>com.sun.jmx</groupId>
                    <artifactId>jmxri</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>com.sun.jdmk</groupId>
                    <artifactId>jmxtools</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>javax.jms</groupId>
                    <artifactId>jms</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>net.sf.jopt-simple</groupId>
            <artifactId>jopt-simple</artifactId>
            <version>3.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
            <version>1.6.4</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
            <artifactId>scala-compiler</artifactId>
            <version>2.8.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.101tec</groupId>
            <artifactId>zkclient</artifactId>
            <version>0.3</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.yammer.metrics</groupId>
            <artifactId>metrics-core</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.yammer.metrics</groupId>
            <artifactId>metrics-annotation</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.easymock</groupId>
            <artifactId>easymock</artifactId>
            <version>3.0</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.scalatest</groupId>
            <artifactId>scalatest</artifactId>
            <version>1.2</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

As for the

Maybe I should switch to Apache Active MQ. But that sounds less fun. Am I missing something?

Well, don't you forget that this is the beta release? Some bad things are happening, indeed, but currently we're running kafka 0.7 without any efforts.