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Maven/Gradle Dependencies

Add spring-kafka to your project. It transitively brings in kafka-clients. No explicit kafka-clients version needed — spring-kafka manages it.

pom.xml (Maven)xml

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

<!-- For Avro + Schema Registry (optional) -->
<dependency>
  <groupId>io.confluent</groupId>
  <artifactId>kafka-avro-serializer</artifactId>
  <version>7.5.0</version>
</dependency>

build.gradle (Gradle)groovy

dependencies {
    implementation 'org.springframework.kafka:spring-kafka'
    // Test utilities (embedded broker)
    testImplementation 'org.springframework.kafka:spring-kafka-test'
}