Develop consumers and producers in Java

Learning path | 5 resources | 1 hr | Published on March 30, 2022
Continue your Apache Kafka journey by developing consumers and producers in Java to stream data.

  1. Overview: Develop consumers and producers in Java
  2. Create a topic Page | 15 mins
  3. Clone the Git repository Page | 15 mins
  4. Start the producer and consumer Java applications Page | 15 mins
  5. Produce and consume songs Page | 15 mins

Overview: Develop consumers and producers in Java

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What to expect

In this Apache Kafka tutorial, we will develop an example where one service is a producer, sending song descriptions to the songs-catalog topic, and another service consumes these song descriptions. If you could use a Kafka basics refresher, please see our Kafka 101 learning path. 

In a real-world scenario, the consumer would take the songs and process them (i.e., storing them in a graph database such as Neo4j, or an Elasticsearch instance for searching capabilities), but for the sake of simplicity, in this case, the service prints them in the console (Figure 20).

 

The consumer shows that the broker successfully distributed messages by printing them.
Figure 20: The consumer shows that the broker successfully distributed messages by printing them.

 

Before continuing this learning path, please verify that you have the following tools installed in your development environment:

  • Java JDK 11+
  • Git 2.30+
  • Maven 3.8.3+

You will need to open four terminal windows to run this example: two terminals for running the services and two for sending requests to the services.