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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package kafka.tools;
+
+
+import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+
+@Deprecated
+public class StreamsResetter {
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws ClassNotFoundException, NoSuchMethodException, InvocationTargetException, IllegalAccessException {
+        System.out.println("WARNING: The 'kafka.tools' package is deprecated and will change to 'org.apache.kafka.tools' in the next major release.");
+        Class<?> toolClass = Class.forName("org.apache.kafka.tools.StreamsResetter");
+        Method main = toolClass.getDeclaredMethod("main", String[].class);
+        main.invoke(null, (Object) args);
+    }
+}