Kafka producers and publishing data into Kafka

In this section we are writing a Kafka producer that will publish events into the Kafka topic.

Perform the following step to create the producer:

1. Create a Maven project by using com.stormadvance as groupId and kafka-producer as artifactId.
2. Add the following dependencies for Kafka in the pom.xml file:

<dependency> 
  <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId> 
  <artifactId>kafka_2.10</artifactId> 
  <version>0.9.0.1</version> 
  <exclusions> 
    <exclusion> 
      <groupId>com.sun.jdmk</groupId> 
      <artifactId>jmxtools</artifactId> 
    </exclusion> 
    <exclusion> 
      <groupId>com.sun.jmx</groupId> 
      <artifactId>jmxri</artifactId> 
    </exclusion> 
  </exclusions> 
</dependency> 
<dependency...