I'm stumped: My sample Producer code does not work in Windows, but does work in Linux (Ubunuty).
My sample Consumer code is fine. - Kaka 0.8 (June 19), compiled using Scala 2.9.2 - Java version is JDK 1.7x (Oracle version in Windows, OpenJDK on Ubuntu) - 1 broker, 1 partition,1 replica, no compression, topic already created called "test" - Producer code throws exception when producer runs on Windows 7 regardless if Kaka broker is running in Windows 7 or Ubuntu 12.04 - Producer code works if run on Ubuntu 12.04 - Consumer code works on Windows Producer code: val topic = "test" val props = new Properties() props.put("serializer.class", "kafka.serializer.StringEncoder"); props.put("metadata.broker.list", "192.168.1.200:9092"); val producer = new Producer[String, String](new ProducerConfig(props)) val msg = new KeyedMessage(topic, "key1", "value1") try { producer.send(msg) } catch { case e: Exception => ... } Stack trace: kafka.common.FailedToSendMessageException: Failed to send messages after 3 tries. at kafka.producer.async.DefaultEventHandler.handle(DefaultEventHandler.scala:90) at kafka.producer.Producer.send(Producer.scala:74) at kafka.javaapi.producer.Producer.send(Producer.scala:32) at shops.runner.Runner$.main(Runner.scala:91) Any ideas? Thank you!