Jafka is a fast and lightweight message queue system that is implemented as a single 271KB JAR file. It uses Zookeeper for coordination and has dependencies on common Java libraries like Log4j and Jackson. Jafka aims to eventually become a full implementation of Apache Kafka with features like persistence, high throughput processing of millions of messages per second, load balancing and a simple message format. It currently focuses on providing basic queue functionality through a simple producer/consumer model.