Kafka Schema Registry with Spring Boot

This project demonstrates how to integrate Apache Kafka with the Confluent Schema Registry using Spring Boot, publishing and consuming structured messages in JSON Schema format.

It uses:

• Spring Boot 3.x
• Apache Kafka
• Confluent Schema Registry (7.x)
• JSON Schema with Confluent's serializers
• Java 21

🔧 Features

• ✅ JSON Schema registration and validation via Confluent Schema Registry
• ✅ Spring Kafka Producer and Consumer
• ✅ KafkaTemplate integration with schema-aware serialization
• ✅ Minimal configuration with application.yaml
• ✅ Docker Compose to spin up Kafka and Schema Registry locally

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🚀 Getting Started

1. Clone the project

git clone https://github.com/your-username/kafka-schema-spring-boot.git
cd kafka-schema-spring-boot