Just for your information, I faced same issue.
For me, it was origin from the hostname of Kafka node.
Since the hostname of broker stored in Zookeeper was different with the
hostname what I configured in source,
it couldn`t fetch the meta data of brokers.
If you configure the log level as debug,
zk.connect is needed in Kafka 0.7. Since you are using Kafka 0.8, you need
to set metadata.broker.list. ZK is no longer needed in the producer in 0.8.
You can follow http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html for 0.8
documentation.
The latest release in maven is 0.8.0. We publish different kafka j
Goal: I am trying to send messages to kafka from a java cleint.
And it has been a pain..
Let me describe in brief.
1. I have installed kafka on a centos VM.
2. I ran the zookeeper that comes with it, the server , the producer and
the client with all of the default properties files.
I sent and
