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Hudson commented on FLUME-2500:
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UNSTABLE: Integrated in flume-trunk #683 (See 
[https://builds.apache.org/job/flume-trunk/683/])
FLUME-2500: Add a channel that uses Kafka (jarcec: 
http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/flume/repo?p=flume.git&a=commit&h=aef02df10a26a6b6911b771a506994f2069857cf)
* flume-ng-channels/flume-kafka-channel/src/test/resources/zookeeper.properties
* 
flume-ng-channels/flume-kafka-channel/src/main/java/org/apache/flume/channel/kafka/KafkaChannel.java
* 
flume-ng-channels/flume-kafka-channel/src/test/resources/kafka-server.properties
* 
flume-ng-sinks/flume-ng-kafka-sink/src/test/java/org/apache/flume/sink/kafka/util/KafkaConsumer.java
* 
flume-ng-sinks/flume-ng-kafka-sink/src/test/java/org/apache/flume/sink/kafka/util/TestUtil.java
* flume-ng-channels/pom.xml
* 
flume-ng-channels/flume-kafka-channel/src/main/java/org/apache/flume/channel/kafka/KafkaChannelConfiguration.java
* flume-ng-sinks/flume-ng-kafka-sink/pom.xml
* flume-ng-channels/flume-kafka-channel/pom.xml
* 
flume-ng-channels/flume-kafka-channel/src/test/java/org/apache/flume/channel/kafka/TestKafkaChannel.java
* flume-ng-channels/flume-kafka-channel/src/test/resources/log4j.properties


> Add a channel that uses Kafka 
> ------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLUME-2500
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-2500
>             Project: Flume
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Hari Shreedharan
>            Assignee: Hari Shreedharan
>             Fix For: v1.6.0
>
>         Attachments: FLUME-2500-1.patch, FLUME-2500-2.patch, 
> FLUME-2500.patch, FLUME-2500.patch
>
>
> Here is the rationale:
> - Kafka does give a HA channel, which means a dead agent does not affect the 
> data in the channel - thus reducing delay of delivery.
> - Kafka is used by many companies - it would be a good idea to use Flume to 
> pull data from Kafka and write it to HDFS/HBase etc. 
> This channel is not going to be useful for cases where Kafka is not already 
> used, since it brings is operational overhead of maintaining two systems, but 
> if there is Kafka in use - this is good way to integrate Kafka and Flume.
> Here is an a scratch implementation: 
> https://github.com/harishreedharan/flume/blob/kafka-channel/flume-ng-channels/flume-kafka-channel/src/main/java/org/apache/flume/channel/kafka/KafkaChannel.java



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