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Clients make it fast and easy to produce and consume messages through Apache Kafka®. Official Confluent clients are available for Java, along with librdkafka and derived clients.

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Kafka consumer

Java consumer that is included with Apache Kafka.

Kafka producer

Java producer that is included with Apache Kafka.

Learn more

• The Kafka Clients Overview provides the Confluent version support matrix and schedule, package downloads, and per-client feature support.
• Watch the Apache Kafka 101 course to learn more about producers and consumers.

Clients

Kafka Java Client

Docs | Tutorial | API | GitHub

Java producer and consumer shipped with Apache Kafka.

Kafka C/C++ Client

Docs | Tutorial | API | GitHub

librdkafka, a C/C++ library that offers a producer and a consumer for Kafka.

Kafka Python Client

Docs | Tutorial | API | GitHub

Python client that provides a high-level producer, consumer, and AdminClient.

Kafka Go Client

Docs | Tutorial | API | GitHub

Go client that offers a producer and a consumer for Kafka.

Kafka .NET Client

Docs | Tutorial | API | GitHub

.NET client that provides a high-level producer, consumer and AdminClient.

Confluent JMS Client

Docs

Allows Kafka or Confluent Platform to be used as a JMS message broker.