Checked it without the scala lang dependency and it throws:
>Error:Error:line (56)java: /Users/chinmaygupte/Repo/forked_repos/blueflood/blueflood-kafka/src/main/java/com/rackspacecloud/blueflood/kafkaproducer/KafkaProductionWork.java:56: cannot access scala.ScalaObject
class file for scala.ScalaObject not found