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+KafkaIO contains I/O transforms which allow you to read/write messages from/to [Apache Kafka](http://kafka.apache.org/).
+
+## Dependencies
+
+To use KafkaIO you must first add a dependency on `beam-sdks-java-io-kafka`
+
+```maven
+<dependency>
+    <groupId>org.apache.beam</groupId>
+    <artifactId>beam-sdks-java-io-kafka</artifactId>
+    <version>...</version>
+</dependency>
+```
+
+## Documentation
+
+- [KafkaIO.java](https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/java/io/kafka/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/kafka/KafkaIO.java)