Hi All,
What is the lightest way to check if the connection to Kafka is up or not? Currently I'm having the producer attempt to send a message to a topic, and then catching a TimeoutException and handling logic inside of the catch statement. This doesn't seem like the right way to do this, though. Is there a way to check if the connection is up without resorting to control flow through Exceptions? I'm using Kafka 0.8.2 Alex
