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 >> >> >
