In a nutshell: High Level uses Consumer Groups to handle the tracking of message offset consumption. SimpleConsumer leaves it all up to you.
The 0.7.x quick start shows examples of both: http://kafka.apache.org/quickstart.html On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Oleg Ruchovets <oruchov...@gmail.com>wrote: > By the way. What does high level consumer means? Is there other type of > consumers? > > Thanks > Oleg. > > > >