Hi Andrea,

Thanks for your reply~~ you mean, it is no difference between
having N threads share the same ConsumerConnector created by
Consumer.createJavaConsumerConnector,
and
having N consumer process which has its own ConsumerConnector in every one
of them?

Best Regards,
Li Ming



On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Andrea Gazzarini <
andrea.gazzar...@gmail.com> wrote:

> It shouldn't.
> Creating several listener / consumer processes belonging to the same group
> means you are working with a point-to-point message channel so incoming
> messages will be delivered only to one consumer.
>
> Maybe I'm wrong but I believe in that scenario there's no difference (from
> broker perspective) between threads and processes.
>
> Regards,
> Andrea
>
>
> On 05/13/2013 12:15 PM, Ming Li wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does Kafka have a limitation on the simultaneous connections (created with
>> Consumer.**createJavaConsumerConnector) for the same topic within the
>> same
>> group?
>>
>> My scenario is I need to consume a topic from different process (not
>> thread), so I need to create lots of high level consumers.
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Li Ming
>>
>>
>

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