+1 This is great to hear that it can come home to ASF. We see an uptake on Kafka and how to make it work with Camel from Kafka side of things. So a native Camel kafka connector would be the answer. And open up the Kafka world to all of those many Camel components.
A new sub-project: camel-kafka-connector On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 11:49 PM Andrea Tarocchi <andrea.taroc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > In the past months, some folks at Red Hat have been working on the > integration between Apache Camel and Kafka Connect. > Kafka Connect, an open source component of Kafka, is a framework for > connecting Kafka with external systems and in a nutshell to inject > data in and out of a Kafka broker [1]. > > The result of the polishing of the initial PoC is available in the > camel-kafka-connector repository [2]. > > I do believe that making camel appealing to be used directly inside > the Kafka ecosystem would be beneficial for our community. Providing > unmatched external system connectivity capabilities to Kafka would > expand the use of camel in the streaming world. > > So I’m proposing to officially support camel-kafka-connect as an > Apache Camel’s main > subproject that could be regarded as a new platform along with those > we support as today (Spring Boot, Karaf and recently Quarkus). > > The original contributors, on behalf of which I speak, are keen to > donate the code hosted in the repository at [2] to the Apache Software > foundation. > > Thoughts ? > > Andrea Tarocchi. > Andrea Cosentino. > > [1] https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#connect > [2] https://github.com/jboss-fuse/camel-kafka-connector > > -- > "In a world without walls and fences who needs Windows and Gates?" > Andrea Tarocchi > about.me/andrea.tarocchi -- Claus Ibsen ----------------- http://davsclaus.com @davsclaus Camel in Action 2: https://www.manning.com/ibsen2
