Since you’re placing jars in the lib/ folder yourself instead of packaging an
uber jar, you also need to provide the Kafka dependency jars.
It usually isn’t recommended to place dependencies in the lib/ folder.
Packaging an uber jar is the recommended approach.
Using the maven-shade-plugin, you
Hi Paolo,
Have you followed the instructions in this documentation [1]?
The connectors are not part of the binary distributions, so you would need to
bundle the dependencies with your code by building an uber jar.
Cheers,
Gordon
[1] https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.3/d
