0.9.0 client does not yet supporting admin requests like topic creation, so you still need to do it through AdminUtils for now.
We plan to add this support after KIP-4 is adopted: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-4+-+Command+line+and+centralized+administrative+operations Guozhang On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Helleren, Erik <erik.helle...@cmegroup.com> wrote: > Hi All, > Is it possible to create a topic programmatically with a specific topic > configuration (number of partitions, replication factor, retention time, > etc) using just the new 0.9.0 client jar? > -Erik > -- -- Guozhang