Platform Events Developer Guide

Platform Events Developer Guide
Delivering Custom Notifications with Platform Events
Defining Your Custom Platform Event
Publishing Platform Events
Subscribing to Platform Events
Testing Your Platform Event in Apex
Encrypting Platform Event Messages at Rest in the Event Bus
Monitor Platform Event Publishing and Delivery Usage
Considerations
Examples
End-to-End Example Using Flows
Java Client Example
Java Client Example Using the Command Line
Java Client Example Using an IDE
Prerequisites
Define a Custom Platform Event
Download and Build the Project
Subscribe to a Channel and Receive Event Notifications
Platform Event Samples
Reference
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Example: Subscribe to Events Using a Java Client (EMP Connector) and an IDE

The Java sample shows you how to use an open-source library called Enterprise Messaging Platform (EMP) Connector in the Eclipse IDE. EMP Connector is a thin wrapper around the CometD library. It hides the complexity of creating a CometD client and subscribing to Streaming API in Java. The example subscribes to a platform event, receives notifications, and supports replaying events with durable streaming.

EMP Connector is a free, open-source, community-supported tool. Salesforce provides this tool as an example of how to subscribe to events using CometD. To contribute to the EMP Connector project with your own enhancements, submit pull requests to the repository at https://github.com/forcedotcom/EMP-Connector.

Important

EMP Connector is based on Java and uses CometD version 3.1.0. It supports username and password authentication and OAuth bearer token authentication. This walkthrough shows steps only for username and password authentication.