webMethods Adapter for Apache Kafka is an add-on to webMethods Integration Server that enables you to exchange data/messages with a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system called Apache Kafka. The adapter provides a unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds.

Using Adapter for Apache Kafka, Integration Server clients can create and run services to perform operations such as, retrieve data from, and insert data in the Apache Kafka cluster.

For example, you can use Adapter for Apache Kafka to extract information from an XML-based purchase order, repackage it as an order record, and deliver it to a Apache Kafka topic for processing by a back-end enterprise system.