We are setting up a new Kafka project (0.8.2.1) and are trying to go straight to consumer offsets stored in Kafka. Unfortunately it looks like the Java consumer will try to connect to ZooKeeper regardless of the settings.
Will/When will this dependency go away completely? It would simplify our deployments if our consumers didn't have to connect to ZooKeeper at all. P.S. I've asked this on Stack Overflow, if you would like to answer there for posterity: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30719331/kafka-0-8-2-1-offsets-storage-kafka-still-requires-zookeeper
