Hi Rowland, First of all, welcome to the community, and thanks for thinking about the future of Kafka!
I'm not very familiar with X/Open XA, but from the documentation I read, it appears most related to KIP-939: Support Participation in 2PC [1] currently in-progress. You may be interested in contributing to the discussion [2] for that KIP to ensure that it is easy to use within an XA context. I see that someone else in that thread has mentioned XA, but no conclusions appear to have been reached. I'm sure that Artem would be interested to hear your use-case and vision for using Kafka with XA. [1]: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-939%3A+Support+Participation+in+2PC [2]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/wbs9sqs3z1tdm7ptw5j4o9osmx9s41nf Thanks! Greg On Mon, Jan 1, 2024 at 2:20 PM Rowland Smith <rowl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am new to the Kafka developer community. After learning more about > Kafka's transactional capabilities recently, I became interested in > exploring what would be required to provide support for the XA interface > specified in the X/ Open Distributed Processing Model in the Kafka producer > client. I have put together a proof of concept to satisfy my curiosity, and > based on that work, I think that extending the Kafka producer with XA > support is doable with reasonable effort. > > As I understand the Kafka development team's process, the first step in the > process would be to produce a KIP describing the feature's goals and > design. My question in this email is whether XA support has ever been > considered previously by the PMC and if so, with what result. I don't want > to spend time working on a KIP if XA support is not something that the PMC > sees value in including and supporting in the Kafka codebase. > > Any feedback would be appreciated. I am excited to work on this feature if > there is interest in the community. > > Regards, > Rowland
