Java Client

This project contains a Java application that subscribes to a topic on a Confluent Cloud Kafka cluster and sends a sample message, then consumes it and prints the consumed record to the console.

Prerequisites

This project assumes that you already have:

• A Linux/UNIX environment. If you are using Windows, see the tutorial below in the "Learn More" section to download WSL.
• Java 21 and Gradle 8.7 installed. To confirm both the Gradle version and Java version, run gradle --version.

Installation

You can compile this project by running the following command in the root directory of this project:

gradle build

Usage

You can run the application by running the following command in the root directory of this project:

gradle run

Learn more

• For the Java client API, check out the kafka-clients documentation
• Check out the full getting started tutorial