Thanks for the feedback Chia-Ping, I'll go ahead and create a KIP for this.
On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM Chia-Ping Tsai <chia7...@gmail.com> wrote: > > +1 to deprecate mx4j and the project is EOL > > > Federico Valeri <fedeval...@gmail.com> 於 2025年7月14日 晚上8:09 寫道： > > > > Hello devs, Kafka has support for MX4j, that can be used to expose JMX > > beans over HTTP. > > > > https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/trunk/core/src/main/scala/kafka/server/KafkaRaftServer.scala#L91 > > > > This feature is not documented and disabled by default. To enable it, > > you have to pass -Dkafka_mx4jenable=true and add the required JARs to > > the classpath. > > > > Activity on MX4J project has ceased and last release was 12/10/2006. > > We have an 8 years old post on Kafka users ML asking if there is any > > user, but no one replied. > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MX4J > > https://users.kafka.apache.narkive.com/4BMpuEMX/is-anyone-using-mx4j-loader > > > > My question is: should we deprecate and remove? I guess that would > > require a KIP. > > > > I have some time to work on this if there is agreement. > > > > Thanks > > Fede
