Spring for Apache Kafka 2.4.2

The Spring for Apache Kafka (spring-kafka) project applies core Spring concepts to the development of Kafka-based messaging solutions. It provides a “template” as a high-level abstraction for sending messages. It also provides support for Message-driven POJOs with @KafkaListener annotations and a “listener container”. These libraries promote the use of dependency injection and declarative. In all of these cases, you will see similarities to the JMS support in the Spring Framework and RabbitMQ support in Spring AMQP.
Features

KafkaTemplate

KafkaMessageListenerContainer

@KafkaListener

KafkaTransactionManager

spring-kafka-test jar with embedded kafka server

Kafka Client Compatibility

Spring for Apache Kafka is based on the pure java kafka-clients jar. The following is the compatibility matrix:

Spring for Apache Kafka Version

Spring Integration for Apache Kafka Version

kafka-clients

2.4.x

3.3.x

2.4.0

2.3.x

3.2.x

2.3.1

2.2.x

3.1.x

2.0.1, 2.1.x, 2.2.x

1.3.x

2.3.x

0.11.0.x, 1.0.x

IMPORTANT: This matrix is client compatibility; in most cases (since 0.10.2.0) newer clients can communicate with older brokers. All users with brokers >= 0.10.x.x (and all spring boot 1.5.x users) are recommended to use spring-kafka version 1.3.x or higher due to its simpler threading model thanks to KIP-62. For a complete discussion about client/broker compatibility, see the Kafka Compatibility Matrix

Spring Integration Kafka versions prior to 2.0 pre-dated the Spring for Apache Kafka project and therefore were not based on it.

These versions will be referenced transitively when using maven or gradle for version management. For the 1.1.x version, the 0.10.1.x is the default.

2.1.x uses the 1.1.x kafka-clients by default. When overriding the kafka-clients for 2.1.x see the documentation appendix.

2.2.x uses the 2.0.x kafka-clients by default. When overriding the kafka-clients for 2.2.x see the documentation appendix.

Spring Boot 1.5 users should use 1.3.x (Boot dependency management will use 1.1.x by default so this should be overridden).

Spring Boot 2.1 users should use 2.2.x (Boot dependency management will use the correct version).

Spring Boot 2.2 users should use 2.3.x (Boot dependency management will use the correct version).

Spring Boot Config

Spring Boot auto-configuration for Spring for Apache Kafka
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