This is a stdin/stdout producer/consumer that works great for (what I think) you are trying to-do https://github.com/edenhill/kafkacat
/******************************************* Joe Stein Founder, Principal Consultant Big Data Open Source Security LLC http://www.stealth.ly Twitter: @allthingshadoop <http://www.twitter.com/allthingshadoop> ********************************************/ On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Su She <suhsheka...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > Sorry for asking multiple questions, but I am currently trying another > approach to run a kafka producer. > > 1) I started the kafka console producer as mentioned here in the background > (just added a & to the end of the producer script) : > http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#introduction > > 2) I then ran a Java script that publishes messages to the console, like > Hello World, etc, but the messages did not get published (I know the > connection was set up as if I manually typed in messages, I was able to see > them in my consumer). > > 3) Is this set up possible? > > Thanks! > > -Su >
