where can I find maven repository for kafka?

Question

I want to try kafka 0.8 (as I understand it is already released). But where can I find the kafka maven repository.

And what additional repository url should I add?

I've found some blogs with

 <dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
    <artifactId>kafka_2.8.0</artifactId>
    <version>0.8.0-SHA</version>
 </dependency>

but it is not works. I'm looking for proper maven dependency. Or should I checkout it from git and deploy in our internal artifactory?

Answer 1

UPDATE

Since November 2013 official Kafka releases can be found on public Maven repository, the latest version in March 2015 being 0.8.2.1:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
  <artifactId>kafka_2.10</artifactId>
  <version>0.8.2.1</version>
</dependency>

If you created the not.released:kafka artifact detailed below any more you can remove it from the local repository.

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Original Answer

Kafka is not released yet to a public Maven repository, but you can add it to your local Maven repository by hand with the install-file command:

mvn install:install-file -Dpackaging=jar -DgroupId=not.released
    -DartifactId=kafka -Dversion=0.8.0 -Dfile=kafka.jar

The command line above expects kafka.jar file in the current working directory. Once installed you can use it with:

<dependency>
  <groupId>not.released</groupId>
  <artifactId>kafka</artifactId>
  <version>0.8.0</version>
</dependency>

Once they release Kafka you can just change the dependency in your POMs and remove / uninstall this file from your local repository.