Hi , I am using kafka 0.9.0.x and in a multithreaded system I have created only one instance of Kafka producer.
When I say producer.close(); it only closes communication and cannot send the messages on topic. BUT why its object is still valid if we cannot send requests to it. Moreover, I can understand kafka producer threads opened and not closed will leak resources, Why kafka cannot have a timer on Producer thread if it is idle close it and make it available for GC and on need recreate it? Thanks Usman.
