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Generating the Javadoc for Apache Kafka java client

Download kafka-0.8.1.1-src.tgz (the source version) from https://kafka.apache.org/downloads.html. Untar and following https://github.com/apache/kafka execute

[cloudera@localhost kafka-0.8.1.1-src]$ ./gradlew javadoc

That generates the documentation at /home/cloudera/Sistemas/ApacheKafka/kafka-0.8.1.1-src/clients/build/docs/javadoc/index.html. That is the wrong Javadoc, should look for package kafka.javaapi.producer.

Appart from that Kafka java client is available from maven. Regarding using Kafka with Storm, here the recommendation is using Kafka 0.8.1.1 and Storm 0.9.1-incubating. Some references:

• https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/0.8.0+Producer+Example
• Apache Kafka by Nishant Garg