is it smarter to go with a java class for message serialization/des?

2014-06-17 Thread S Ahmed
My app is in scala and a quick search on serializing a scala class seems to have potential issues with different versions of scala (I could be wrong as I did a quick search). Is it generally just a better idea to use plain old java classes for kafka messages? i.e. I simply use jackson like:

Re: is it smarter to go with a java class for message serialization/des?

2014-06-17 Thread Neha Narkhede
Yes, backwards incompatibility is a problem when using Java/Scala object serialization. At LinkedIn, we use Avro as the serialization format for Kafka data. Thanks, Neha On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:58 AM, S Ahmed sahmed1...@gmail.com wrote: My app is in scala and a quick search on serializing