KIP-109 — Old Consumer Deprecation
Accepted Kafka 1.0 Consumer
KIP-109 formally deprecates the old Scala-based Kafka consumer (`kafka.consumer.Consumer`) in favor of the new Java consumer introduced in 0.9.0. Maintaining two consumer implementations with different feature sets and behavior divides engineering effort and creates confusion for users about which consumer to use.
Details
| Author | Vahid Hashemian |
| Status | Accepted |
| Kafka Version | 1.0 |
| JIRA | KAFKA-3264 |
| Wiki | View on Apache Wiki |
| Created | 2017-01-05 |
| Last Modified | 2017-02-07 |
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