diff --git a/site-modules/profile/manifests/kafka.pp b/site-modules/profile/manifests/kafka.pp
index 37f33ef9..63b0d884 100644
--- a/site-modules/profile/manifests/kafka.pp
+++ b/site-modules/profile/manifests/kafka.pp
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 # Base configuration for kafka
 class profile::kafka {
   include ::java
 
   class {'::kafka':
     mirror_url    => lookup('kafka::mirror_url'),
     kafka_version => lookup('kafka::version'),
     scala_version => lookup('kafka::scala_version'),
+    require       => Class['java'],
   }
 }