I believe Artem also had some conversations offline about XA. If I recall correctly, he didn't plan to include it in KIP-939 but was happy to leave room for potential KIPs in the future. Please feel free to continue the conversation on the thread. :)
Justine On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 12:05 PM Greg Harris <greg.har...@aiven.io.invalid> wrote: > Hi Rowland, > > First of all, welcome to the community, and thanks for thinking about > the future of Kafka! > > I'm not very familiar with X/Open XA, but from the documentation I > read, it appears most related to KIP-939: Support Participation in 2PC > [1] currently in-progress. You may be interested in contributing to > the discussion [2] for that KIP to ensure that it is easy to use > within an XA context. I see that someone else in that thread has > mentioned XA, but no conclusions appear to have been reached. I'm sure > that Artem would be interested to hear your use-case and vision for > using Kafka with XA. > > [1]: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-939%3A+Support+Participation+in+2PC > [2]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/wbs9sqs3z1tdm7ptw5j4o9osmx9s41nf > > Thanks! > Greg > > > On Mon, Jan 1, 2024 at 2:20 PM Rowland Smith <rowl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > I am new to the Kafka developer community. After learning more about > > Kafka's transactional capabilities recently, I became interested in > > exploring what would be required to provide support for the XA interface > > specified in the X/ Open Distributed Processing Model in the Kafka > producer > > client. I have put together a proof of concept to satisfy my curiosity, > and > > based on that work, I think that extending the Kafka producer with XA > > support is doable with reasonable effort. > > > > As I understand the Kafka development team's process, the first step in > the > > process would be to produce a KIP describing the feature's goals and > > design. My question in this email is whether XA support has ever been > > considered previously by the PMC and if so, with what result. I don't > want > > to spend time working on a KIP if XA support is not something that the > PMC > > sees value in including and supporting in the Kafka codebase. > > > > Any feedback would be appreciated. I am excited to work on this feature > if > > there is interest in the community. > > > > Regards, > > Rowland >
