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Jad Naous commented on KAFKA-865:
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Any updates on this? It's a real pain using the client jar right now. Thanks!
> Mavenize and separate the client.
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> Key: KAFKA-865
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-865
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: clients
> Affects Versions: 0.8.0
> Reporter: Ashwanth Fernando
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> It seems that the java client for Kafka is also bundled with the server JAR
> file and this is generated using sbt package. This is difficult for java
> folks to work with because:
> 1) Many java shops use maven and they want to specify the GAV of kafka in
> their pom and bang, the client jar and all its dependencies should be added
> to the application's classpath. I can't do that right now, because I need to
> run ./sbt eclipse, get the .JAR, add that to my classpath, add a whole lot of
> dependencies (log4j, slf4j, zkClient and so on) manually, which is a pain.
> There are 90 million maven central uploads/downloads in 2012 alone. Almost
> all the java shops out there have maven (either central or in house sonatype).
> 2) Separation of concerns - keeping the server (core) and the client's
> classes together in same jar file, increases the size of the bundle for a
> client and also everytime the server's code changes and a release is
> performed, the client also needs to update their .JAR file. which is not very
> great. We don't want a ton of clients to update their .JAR file, just because
> a faster replication strategy for the kafka server cluster changed in a new
> release.
> Action items are to separate the client and server portions of Kafka, add it
> in a pom along with the compile time dependencies and upload it to Maven
> Central or if you have a LinkedIn externally exposed Nexus, over there.
> This will increase adoption of the Kafka framework.
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