Hello, I went thru QuickStart instructions at: http://docs.confluent.io/2.1.0-alpha1/streams/quickstart.html
Downloaded confluent-2.1.0-alpha1, started ZK & kafka servers. Continuously producing to topic : streams-file-input. However, running the WordCountJob example throws error (pasting the message below). java version "1.7.0_79" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.5.5) (7u79-2.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.2) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.79-b02, mixed mode) Please help resolve the issue. thanks, Buvana ~/confluent-2.1.0-alpha1$ ./bin/kafka-run-class org.apache.kafka.streams.examples.wordcount.WordCountJob [2016-04-19 11:09:14,223] WARN The configuration zookeeper.connect = localhost:2181 was supplied but isn't a known config. (org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.ProducerConfig) [2016-04-19 11:09:14,344] WARN The configuration num.standby.replicas = 0 was supplied but isn't a known config. (org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.ConsumerConfig) [2016-04-19 11:09:14,344] WARN The configuration zookeeper.connect = localhost:2181 was supplied but isn't a known config. (org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.ConsumerConfig) [2016-04-19 11:09:14,344] WARN The configuration __stream.thread.instance__ = Thread[StreamThread-1,5,main] was supplied but isn't a known config. (org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.ConsumerConfig) [2016-04-19 11:09:14,350] WARN The configuration zookeeper.connect = localhost:2181 was supplied but isn't a known config. (org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.ConsumerConfig) Exception in thread "StreamThread-1" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonGenerator.setCurrentValue(Ljava/lang/Object;)V at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.std.MapSerializer.serialize(MapSerializer.java:445) at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.std.MapSerializer.serialize(MapSerializer.java:29) at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.DefaultSerializerProvider.serializeValue(DefaultSerializerProvider.java:129) at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper._configAndWriteValue(ObjectMapper.java:3387) at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.writeValueAsString(ObjectMapper.java:2781) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.InternalTopicManager.createTopic(InternalTopicManager.java:178) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.InternalTopicManager.makeReady(InternalTopicManager.java:89) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.StreamPartitionAssignor.assign(StreamPartitionAssignor.java:362) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerCoordinator.performAssignment(ConsumerCoordinator.java:227) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator.onJoinLeader(AbstractCoordinator.java:393) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator.access$700(AbstractCoordinator.java:81) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator$JoinGroupResponseHandler.handle(AbstractCoordinator.java:343) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator$JoinGroupResponseHandler.handle(AbstractCoordinator.java:324) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator$CoordinatorResponseHandler.onSuccess(AbstractCoordinator.java:665) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator$CoordinatorResponseHandler.onSuccess(AbstractCoordinator.java:644) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.RequestFuture$1.onSuccess(RequestFuture.java:167) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.RequestFuture.fireSuccess(RequestFuture.java:133) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.RequestFuture.complete(RequestFuture.java:107) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient$RequestFutureCompletionHandler.onComplete(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:380) at org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient.poll(NetworkClient.java:274) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient.clientPoll(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:320) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient.poll(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:213) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient.poll(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:193) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient.poll(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:163) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator.ensureActiveGroup(AbstractCoordinator.java:222) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerCoordinator.ensurePartitionAssignment(ConsumerCoordinator.java:311) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer.pollOnce(KafkaConsumer.java:890) at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer.poll(KafkaConsumer.java:853) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.StreamThread.runLoop(StreamThread.java:325) at org.apache.kafka.streams.processor.internals.StreamThread.run(StreamThread.java:248)