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The kafka 0.8.0 jars on maven central for Scala 2.8.0 are corrupt ( the main jar is 5.1 kb in size when it should be 2.4 Mb). Since 2.8.0_0.8.0 is the only official downloadable Kafka version, and the corresponding jar for client apps is the only one that is corrupted, it's impossible to do a maven build without building a custom version of Kafka or overriding the maven central client jar.
Please update the maven central artifacts associated with this release.
http://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails|org.apache.kafka|kafka_2.8.0|0.8.0|jar