Kafka: Não é possível criar vários consumidores de fluxo

Acabei de me levantar e correr com o Kafka 0.8 beta 1. Eu tenho um exemplo muito simples em funcionamento, o problema é que eu só posso obter um consumidor de mensagem para o trabalho, não vários. Ou seja, o método runSingleWorker () FUNCIONA. O método run () não 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()));

            }
        }
    }
}

E dentro do meu consumidor de brinquedos:

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);
    }
}

O problema é que o pool de trabalhadores não pega mensagens:

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...

Quando adiciono mensagens por meio da linha de comando de produção, as mensagens são impressas na versão do trabalhador encadeada única, mas as mensagens não são impressas na situação de vários fluxos. Oque esta acontecendo aqui? Como posso consertar isso?

Btw, o pom.xml para o kafka 0.8 não é um pom válido e não adquirirá dependências, portanto, aqui está um pom com dependências 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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