Producer is the high level api whereas SyncProducer is the lower level api. Producer takes one or more messages and converts them to a request which is sent by SyncProducer. Producer is actually the client api that everyone should be using.
Thanks, Jun On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:26 AM, navneet sharma < navneetsharma0...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am not able to understand difference between > kafka.javaapi.producer.Producer and kafka.javaapi.producer.SyncProducer. > > Its become even more confusing since Producer expects Generics stating > message type whereas SyncProducer doesnt. > > Also, SyncProducer deals with ByteBufferMessageSet > > Basically i am trying to push data from Kafka broker to Hadoop HDFS and i > am trying to understand contrib/hadoop-consumer code. > > Any pointers? > > Thanks, > Navneet Sharma >
