Kafka 0.8 works great. I am able to use CLI as well as write my own producers/consumers!
Checking Zookeeper... and I see all the topics and partitions created successfully for 0.8. Kafka 0.7 does not work! Why Kafka 0.7? I am using Kafka Spout from Storm which is made for Kafka 0.7. First I just want to run CLI based producer/consumer for Kafka 0.7, which I am unable to. I carry out the following steps: 1) I delete all the topics/partitions etc. in Zookeeper that were created from my Kafka 0.8 2) I change the dataDir in zoo.cfg to point to different location. 3) Now I start the kafka server 0.7. It starts successfully. However I don’t know why it again registers the broker topics I deleted? 4) Now I start the Kafka Producer : bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --topic topicime & it starts successfully: [2013-06-28 14:06:05,521] INFO zookeeper state changed (SyncConnected) (org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient) [2013-06-28 14:06:05,606] INFO Creating async producer for broker id = 0 at 0:0 (kafka.producer.ProducerPool) 5) Time to send some messages & oops I get this error: [2013-06-28 14:07:19,650] INFO Disconnecting from 0:0 (kafka.producer.SyncProducer) [2013-06-28 14:07:19,653] ERROR Connection attempt to 0:0 failed, next attempt in 1 ms (kafka.producer.SyncProducer) java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect0(Native Method) at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect(Net.java:364) at sun.nio.ch.Net.connect(Net.java:356) at sun.nio.ch.SocketChannelImpl.connect(SocketChannelImpl.java:623) at kafka.producer.SyncProducer.connect(SyncProducer.scala:173) at kafka.producer.SyncProducer.getOrMakeConnection(SyncProducer.scala:196) at kafka.producer.SyncProducer.send(SyncProducer.scala:92) at kafka.producer.SyncProducer.multiSend(SyncProducer.scala:135) at kafka.producer.async.DefaultEventHandler.send(DefaultEventHandler.scala:58) at kafka.producer.async.DefaultEventHandler.handle(DefaultEventHandler.scala:44) at kafka.producer.async.ProducerSendThread.tryToHandle(ProducerSendThread.scala:116) at scala.collection.immutable.Stream.foreach(Stream.scala:254) at kafka.producer.async.ProducerSendThread.processEvents(ProducerSendThread.scala:70) at kafka.producer.async.ProducerSendThread.run(ProducerSendThread.scala:41) Note that Zookeeper is already running. Any help would really be appreciated. *EDIT:* I don't even see the topic being created in zookeeper. I am running the following command: bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --zookeeper localhost:2181 --topic topicime After the command everything is fine & I get the following message: [2013-06-28 14:30:17,614] INFO Session establishment complete on server localhost/127.0.0.1:2181, sessionid = 0x13f805c6673004b, negotiated timeout = 6000 (org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn) [2013-06-28 14:30:17,615] INFO zookeeper state changed (SyncConnected) (org.I0Itec.zkclient.ZkClient) [2013-06-28 14:30:17,700] INFO Creating async producer for broker id = 0 at 0:0 (kafka.producer.ProducerPool) However now when i type a string to send I get the above error (Connection refused!)