diff --git a/examples/pom.xml b/examples/pom.xml
index e674e799f2..81af7357f0 100644
--- a/examples/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/pom.xml
@@ -90,6 +90,12 @@
       <version>${project.version}</version>
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spark-sql-kafka-0-10_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+      <version>${project.version}</version>
+      <scope>provided</scope>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-math3</artifactId>