Maven/Gradle Dependencies

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework.kafka</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-kafka</artifactId>
  <!-- Version managed by Spring Boot's dependency management -->
</dependency>

<!-- For Avro + Schema Registry (optional): Confluent's serializers, not part of Spring or Kafka.
     Use the artifact version and repository from Confluent's documentation for your Platform release. -->
<dependency>
  <groupId>io.confluent</groupId>
  <artifactId>kafka-avro-serializer</artifactId>
</dependency>

dependencies {
    implementation 'org.springframework.kafka:spring-kafka'
    // Needed only if you use Kafka Streams
    implementation 'org.apache.kafka:kafka-streams'
    // Test utilities (embedded broker)
    testImplementation 'org.springframework.kafka:spring-kafka-test'
}