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Jan 12, 2020 · Backend Development

Comprehensive Guide to Spring‑Kafka Integration and Advanced Features

This article provides a systematic tutorial on using Spring‑Kafka, covering basic setup, embedded Kafka for testing, topic creation methods, message sending with KafkaTemplate, transactional messaging, request‑reply patterns, advanced @KafkaListener configurations, manual acknowledgment, listener lifecycle control, SendTo forwarding, and retry with dead‑letter queues, all illustrated with complete code examples.