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Next, create the Java consumer application by pasting the following code into a file src/main/java/examples/Consumer.java. 
package examples;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.kafka.annotation.KafkaListener;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
import org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.ConsumerRecord;
import org.springframework.kafka.support.KafkaHeaders;
import org.springframework.messaging.handler.annotation.Header;

import java.io.IOException;

@Service
public class Consumer {

    private final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Consumer.class);

    @KafkaListener(id = "myConsumer", topics = "purchases", groupId = "spring-boot", autoStartup = "false")
    public void listen(String value,
        @Header(KafkaHeaders.RECEIVED_TOPIC) String topic,
        @Header(KafkaHeaders.RECEIVED_KEY) String key) {
        logger.info(String.format("Consumed event from topic %s: key = %-10s value = %s", topic, key, value));
    }
}
Once again, you can compile the code before proceeding by running the following command: 
gradle build
And you should see the following output: 
BUILD SUCCESSFUL in 1s