Kafka EI Connector

The Kafka connector allows you to access the Kafka Producer API through WSO2 MI and acts as a message producer that facilitates message publishing. The Kafka connector sends messages to the Kafka brokers.

Kafka is a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system that maintains feeds of messages in topics. Producers write data to topics and consumers read from topics. For more information on Apache Kafka, see Apache Kafka documentation.

Compatibility

Connector version	Supported Kafka version	Supported WSO2 ESB/EI version
3.3.0	kafka_2.12-2.8.2	MI 4.x.x
3.2.0	kafka_2.12-2.8.2	MI 4.x.x
3.1.1	kafka_2.12-1.0.0	EI 7.1.0, EI 7.0.x, EI 6.6.0
3.1.0	kafka_2.12-1.0.0	EI 7.1.0, EI 7.0.x, EI 6.6.0
3.0.0	kafka_2.12-1.0.0	EI 6.6.0
2.0.10	kafka_2.12-1.0.0	EI 6.5.0
2.0.9	kafka_2.12-1.0.0	EI 6.5.0
2.0.8	kafka_2.12-1.0.0	EI 6.5.0
2.0.7	kafka_2.12-1.0.0	EI 6.5.0
2.0.6	kafka_2.12-1.0.0	EI 6.5.0
2.0.5	kafka_2.12-1.0.0	ESB 4.9.0, EI 6.2.0, EI 6.3.0, EI 6.4.0, EI 6.5.0
2.0.4	kafka_2.12-1.0.0	ESB 4.9.0, ESB 5.0.0, EI 6.2.0
2.0.3	kafka_2.12-1.0.0	ESB 4.9.0, ESB 5.0.0
1.0.1	kafka_2.12-1.0.0, kafka_2.12-0.11.0.0, 2.9.2-0.8.1.1	ESB 4.9.0, ESB 5.0.0

Getting started

Documentation

Please refer to documentation here.

Building From the Source

Follow the steps given below to build the Kafka connector from the source code:

1. Get a clone or download the source from Github.
2. Run the following Maven command from the esb-connector-kafka directory: mvn clean install.
3. The Kafka connector zip file is created in the esb-connector-kafka/target directory

How You Can Contribute

As an open source project, WSO2 extensions welcome contributions from the community. Check the issue tracker for open issues that interest you. We look forward to receiving your contributions.