public void start()

in flume-kafka-channel/src/main/java/org/apache/flume/channel/kafka/KafkaChannel.java [134:145]


  public void start() {
    logger.info("Starting Kafka Channel: {}", getName());
    producer = new KafkaProducer<String, byte[]>(producerProps);
    if (useKafkaTransactions) {
      logger.debug("Initializing Kafka Transaction");
      producer.initTransactions();
    }
    // We always have just one topic being read by one thread
    logger.info("Topic = {}", topic.get());
    counter.start();
    super.start();
  }