I managed to get kafka-0.7 (trunk) compiled and running. I then wrote a simple producer and consumer inspired by the provided source code examples. The example project was not written with maven, but I managed to figure out all dependencies except the zkclient dependency. I found a git with the same name but this git version (0.1-SNAPSHOT) doesn't seem to work with kafka. I can only get my producer and consumer to work if I manually add zkclient.jar to the classpath.
Are you going to provide maven references to your dependencies in the future (near)? and where do I get the zkclient.jar dependency? (can of cause install it locally... but come on..) brgds Peter Thygesen BTW: very interesting project :)