No, it's just that nobody has done that yet. Jun
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Mark <static.void....@gmail.com> wrote: > Zookeeper integration is possible with ruby so there is nothing stopping > someone from writing a full featured client then correct? > > > On 12/8/11 8:57 AM, Jun Rao wrote: > >> Mark, >> >> The java/scala clients are complete. The non-java support is kind of weak >> at this point. In particular, Kafka has a thick client (lots of >> interaction >> with ZK during rebalance and committing offsets) in the consumer. This >> makes reimplementing the logic in each language hard, At this moment, the >> RB client only supports SimpleConsumer, not the high level consumer. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jun >> >> On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Mark<static.void....@gmail.com**> wrote: >> >> Are consumer/producer clients typically written in Java or Scala? Are >>> they >>> both full-featured? >>> >>> Are there any reasons why the kafka-rb gem couldn't be full featured >>> supporting both queuing and pub-sub models? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>>