WordCount application in Java 8+, using Kafka's Streams API (Kafka version 0.11.0.0)

WordCount.java

import org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.Serdes;
import org.apache.kafka.streams.KafkaStreams;
import org.apache.kafka.streams.StreamsConfig;
import org.apache.kafka.streams.kstream.KStream;
import org.apache.kafka.streams.kstream.KStreamBuilder;
import org.apache.kafka.streams.kstream.KTable;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Properties;

public class WordCountApplication {

  public static void main(final String[] args) throws Exception {
    Properties config = new Properties();
    config.put(StreamsConfig.APPLICATION_ID_CONFIG, "wordcount-application");
    config.put(StreamsConfig.BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS_CONFIG, "kafka-broker1:9092");
    config.put(StreamsConfig.DEFAULT_KEY_SERDE_CLASS_CONFIG, Serdes.String().getClass());
    config.put(StreamsConfig.DEFAULT_VALUE_SERDE_CLASS_CONFIG, Serdes.String().getClass());

    KStreamBuilder builder = new KStreamBuilder();
    KStream<String, String> textLines = builder.stream("TextLinesTopic");
    KTable<String, Long> wordCounts = textLines
        .flatMapValues(textLine -> Arrays.asList(textLine.toLowerCase().split("\\W+")))
        .groupBy((key, word) -> word)
        .count("Counts");
    wordCounts.to(Serdes.String(), Serdes.Long(), "WordsWithCountsTopic");

    KafkaStreams streams = new KafkaStreams(builder, config);
    streams.start();

    Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(new Thread(streams::close));
  }

}