Demonstrates how to dispatch Avro message making use of Schema Registry to Kafka Topic using Java API.
For Windows users, unfortunately Confluent does not ship executable to start Schema Registry. You can use following command to start schema registry.
SET CONFLUENT_HOME=C:\dev\tools\confluent-3.1.1
java -Xmx512M -server -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=20 -XX:InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent=35 -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Dlog4j.configuration=file;%CONFLUENT_HOME%\\etc\schema-registry\log4j.properties -cp ;%CONFLUENT_HOME%\package-schema-registry\target\kafka-schema-registry-package-*-development\share\java\schema-registry\*;%CONFLUENT_HOME%\share\java\confluent-common\*;%CONFLUENT_HOME%\share\java\rest-utils\*;%CONFLUENT_HOME%\share\java\schema-registry\* io.confluent.kafka.schemaregistry.rest.SchemaRegistryMain %CONFLUENT_HOME%\etc\schema-registry\schema-registry.properties