Bad pom.xml definition

The generated pom.xml includes two dependency sections. This results in Gradle being unable to resolve transitive dependencies as it inspects the first dependency section, not the second which includes the actual dependencies. Thus, using Kafka in Gradle requires specifying all the dependencies by hand or rewriting the pom.xml and deploying to an internal repository.

http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=org/apache/kafka/kafka_2.9.1/0.8.0-beta1/kafka_2.9.1-0.8.0-beta1.pom