I added kafka tomy dependencies although i am not sure why this would be required... seems to work
<dependency> <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId> <artifactId>kafka_${kafka.scala.version}</artifactId> <version>${kafka.version}</version> </dependency> This is my full dependency list... <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.flink</groupId> <artifactId>flink-java</artifactId> <version>${flink.version}</version> <scope>provided</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.flink</groupId> <artifactId>flink-streaming-java_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId> <version>${flink.version}</version> <scope>provided</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.flink</groupId> <artifactId>flink-connector-kafka-0.11_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId> <version>${flink.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.flink</groupId> <artifactId>flink-statebackend-rocksdb_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId> <version>${flink.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId> <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId> <version>1.7.7</version> <scope>runtime</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>log4j</groupId> <artifactId>log4j</artifactId> <version>1.2.17</version> <scope>runtime</scope> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>eu.neurocom</groupId> <artifactId>mip-model-poc</artifactId> <version>1.0</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.flink</groupId> <artifactId>flink-avro</artifactId> <version>${flink.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>io.confluent</groupId> <artifactId>kafka-avro-serializer</artifactId> <version>4.0.0</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId> <artifactId>kafka_${kafka.scala.version}</artifactId> <version>${kafka.version}</version> </dependency> </dependencies> This does solve the issue but now i am getting the folowing error... java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.avro.generic.GenericData$Record cannot be cast to eu.neurocom.avro.CelloAvro at eu.neurocom.schema.ConfluentAvroDeserializationSchema.deserialize(ConfluentAvroDeserializationSchema.java:37) at eu.neurocom.schema.ConfluentAvroDeserializationSchema.deserialize(ConfluentAvroDeserializationSchema.java:16) at org.apache.flink.streaming.util.serialization.KeyedDeserializationSchemaWrapper.deserialize(KeyedDeserializationSchemaWrapper.java:42) at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.internal.Kafka09Fetcher.runFetchLoop(Kafka09Fetcher.java:139) at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.FlinkKafkaConsumerBase.run(FlinkKafkaConsumerBase.java:652) -- Sent from: http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/