KafkaTemplate
KafkaTemplate is a Spring for Apache Kafka API class that provides high-level operations for sending records to Kafka topics.
Kafka Streams in Action, Second Edition
KafkaTemplate is a Spring Kafka class that provides high-level methods for sending records to Kafka topics.
- How it is used
- Publishes processed loan application records from Spring components to selected Kafka topics.
- How deep it goes
- Explains constructor injection, send arguments, completion callbacks, and concurrent sharing; defers Java threading and synchronization.
- Examples
- Uses a loan processor that routes approved or rejected applications and optionally copies results to a QA topic.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via Spring Kafka to send keyed records and attach callbacks that log broker-produced metadata or errors.
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Spring in Action, Sixth Edition
KafkaTemplate is a Spring for Apache Kafka API class that sends records to and receives records from Kafka topics.
- How it is used
- Provides an injected Spring client for publishing application domain objects asynchronously to Kafka topics.
- How deep it goes
- Explains dependency setup, broker configuration, typed send signatures, optional record fields, and a service implementation.
- Examples
- Uses a TacoOrder service, the tacocloud.orders.topic topic, localhost:9092, and a sendDefault variant.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via Spring Kafka by injecting a typed template and sending domain objects to named or configured default topics.
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Related concepts
- Spring Boot autoconfigurationproduced by · Spring Boot autoconfiguration is the conditional automatic selection and configuration of application components based on dependencies, properties, environment, and application context.
- RabbitTemplatecontrasts with · RabbitTemplate is a Spring AMQP API element that provides operations for sending and receiving messages through RabbitMQ.
- JmsTemplatecontrasts with · JmsTemplate is a Spring API that simplifies JMS message production and consumption by managing messaging boilerplate and exceptions.
- Apache Kafkauses · Apache Kafka is a distributed event-streaming platform for publishing, storing, processing, and consuming streams of records.
- Kafka brokeruses · A Kafka broker is a server process in an Apache Kafka cluster that stores records and handles producer, consumer, and other client requests.
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