I know consuming Kafka messages in a batch is not currently supported. I googled and I didn't find any real options. I looked at hacking the Camel classes to implement it and decided that it was too risky.
So for now we are falling back to using a Spring Kafka Consumer. The issue with that is I still want to use Camel because we need to do some complex EIP processing and republishing of messages. And since Spring does not know about Camel Context startup i have to do a hack to make it wait if the CamelContext is not in the "started" state. Questions: - Is it possible to use the Spring Kafka Consumer in the "From" and be managed by Camel (I think not but i figured i would ask). - Is implementing batch consumers in the Kafka component planned/in progress? - If none of these - any ideas to make it work with the Kafka component?
