Kafka: no se pueden crear múltiples consumidores de flujo

Me puse en marcha con Kafka 0.8 beta 1. Tengo un ejemplo muy simple en funcionamiento, el problema es que solo puedo hacer que un consumidor de mensajes funcione, no varios. Es decir, el método runSingleWorker () FUNCIONA. El método run () NO FUNCIONA:

import kafka.consumer.ConsumerIterator;
import kafka.consumer.KafkaStream;
import kafka.consumer.ConsumerConfig;
import kafka.javaapi.consumer.ConsumerConnector;

import java.util.Map;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext;

import com.truecar.inventory.worker.core.application.config.AppConfig;

public class ConsumerThreadPool {

    private final ConsumerConnector consumer;
    private final String topic;

    private ExecutorService executor;
    private static ApplicationContext context = new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(AppConfig.class);

    public ConsumerThreadPool(String topic) {
        consumer = kafka.consumer.Consumer.createJavaConsumerConnector((ConsumerConfig)context.getBean("consumerConfig"));
        this.topic = topic;
    }

    public void shutdown() {
        if (consumer != null) consumer.shutdown();
        if (executor != null) executor.shutdown();
    }

    public void run(Integer numThreads) {
        Map<String, Integer> topicCountMap = new HashMap<String, Integer>();

        topicCountMap.put(topic, numThreads);
        Map<String, List<KafkaStream<byte[], byte[]>>> consumerMap = consumer.createMessageStreams(topicCountMap);
        List<KafkaStream<byte[], byte[]>> topicListeners = consumerMap.get(topic);

        executor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(numThreads);

        for(Integer i = 0; i < numThreads; i++ ){
            KafkaStream<byte[], byte[]> stream =  topicListeners.get(i);
            executor.submit(new Consumer(stream, i));
        }
    }


    public void runSingleWorker(Integer numThreads) {
        Map<String, Integer> topicCountMap = new HashMap<String, Integer>();

        topicCountMap.put(topic, new Integer(1));

        Map<String, List<KafkaStream<byte[], byte[]>>> consumerMap = consumer.createMessageStreams(topicCountMap);

        KafkaStream<byte[], byte[]> stream =  consumerMap.get(topic).get(0);
        ConsumerIterator<byte[], byte[]> it = stream.iterator();
        while(true) {
            try {
                Thread.sleep(1000);
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            while(it.hasNext()){
                System.out.println(new String(it.next().message()));

            }
        }
    }
}

Y dentro de mi consumidor de juguetes:

import kafka.consumer.KafkaStream;
import kafka.consumer.ConsumerIterator;

public class Consumer implements Runnable {

    private KafkaStream kafkaStream;
    private Integer threadNumber;

    public Consumer(KafkaStream kafkaStream, Integer threadNumber) {
        this.threadNumber = threadNumber;
        this.kafkaStream = kafkaStream;
    }

    public void run() {
        ConsumerIterator<byte[], byte[]> it = kafkaStream.iterator();
        System.out.println("Created iterator " + it.toString() + " thread number " + threadNumber);
        while(true) {

            try {
                Thread.sleep(1000);
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                break;
            }

            while(it.hasNext()) {
                System.out.println("Thread " + threadNumber + ": " + new String(it.next().message()));
            }
        }
        System.out.println("Shutting down Thread: " + threadNumber);
    }
}

El problema es que el grupo de trabajadores no recoge mensajes:

Created iterator empty iterator thread number 3
Created iterator empty iterator thread number 6
Created iterator empty iterator thread number 9
Created iterator empty iterator thread number 7
Created iterator empty iterator thread number 0
Created iterator empty iterator thread number 0
Created iterator empty iterator thread number 8
Created iterator empty iterator thread number 3
etc...

Cuando agrego mensajes a través de la línea de comando Producir, los mensajes se imprimen bajo la versión de trabajador de subproceso único, pero los mensajes no se imprimen en la situación de múltiples flujos. ¿Que está pasando aqui? ¿Cómo puedo arreglar esto?

Por cierto, el pom.xml para kafka 0.8 no es un pom válido y no adquirirá dependencias, por lo que aquí hay un pom con dependencias completas.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project
xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="
    http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
    http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>group1</groupId>
<artifactId>artifact1</artifactId>
<version>0.1.0</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    <org.springframework.version>3.2.4.RELEASE</org.springframework.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
        <version>3.2.4.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
        <version>3.2.4.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
        <artifactId>kafka_2.9.2</artifactId>
        <version>0.8.0-beta1</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.inject</groupId>
        <artifactId>javax.inject</artifactId>
        <version>1</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
        <artifactId>scala-library</artifactId>
        <version>2.9.2</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>log4j</groupId>
        <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
        <version>1.2.17</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.101tec</groupId>
        <artifactId>zkclient</artifactId>
        <version>0.3</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.yammer.metrics</groupId>
        <artifactId>metrics-core</artifactId>
        <version>2.2.0</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
    <finalName>inventory-core</finalName>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.0</version>
            <configuration>
                <source>1.7</source>
                <target>1.7</target>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
            <configuration>
                <archive>
                    <manifest>
                        <mainClass>com.truecar.inventory.worker.core.application.Starter</mainClass>
                    </manifest>
                </archive>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.dstovall</groupId>
            <artifactId>onejar-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.4.4</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <configuration>
                        <onejarVersion>0.97</onejarVersion>
                        <classifier>onejar</classifier>
                    </configuration>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>one-jar</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>
<pluginRepositories>
    <pluginRepository>
        <id>onejar-maven-plugin.googlecode.com</id>
        <url>http://onejar-maven-plugin.googlecode.com/svn/mavenrepo</url>
    </pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
</project>

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