Hey Gwen, Thanks for your response. The example was very helpful and exactly what I was looking for! I went ahead and used that as an example and while most things are working as I wanted, there are a few issues I'd like to follow up on:
1. If I launch a Zookeeper/Kafka server from code instead of command line, most of the helpful debugging/status messages will not be displayed -- is there any way I can retain this functionality? 2. I created a scenario where I successfully launched a Zookeeper instance from code, then connected to that Zookeeper server using a Kafka Server via command line. I then instantiated both a Kafka-Console-Consumer and Kafka-Console-Producer with the topic 'test'. I was able to send messages to the consumer as expected, but I noticed that when I try to connect the console consumer to the server I always get a 'Connection Refused' error to my Kafka Broker. Any ideas why this might be occuring? Best, Jeff On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Jeff Gong <j.gon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to launch Kafka/Zookeeper servers via some part of the API? > I noticed in this: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16946778/how-can-we-create-a-topic-in-kafka-from-the-ide-using-api/ > that it seems to be possible to create a ZK instance and add a topic to it, > but is this the same as launching the ZK server as we would in the command > line? > > Similarly, would it be possible to do this for a Kafka server and have it > connect to an existing ZK connection? > > Thanks! >
