From the course: Apache Kafka Essential Training: Getting Started

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Kafka client libraries

Kafka client libraries

- [Narrator] While building real-world data pipelines, command line interfaces are hardly used to publish and consume data with Kafka. Kafka producers and consumers are returned in various programming languages. Fortunately, Kafka has client libraries for a long list of programming languages. This website provides the current list of clients. From here, you can access documentation for various clients as well as download these libraries. In this course, we will build sample Kafka clients using Java. For a Maven project, it is easy to add a Kafka client. in your POM.xml, simply include the dependency for Kafka and to download and set up Kafka in your project. Now let's build a simple producer in Kafka with the next video.

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