diff --git a/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/api/java/JavaStreamingContext.scala b/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/api/java/JavaStreamingContext.scala
index 4edf8fa13a205..613683ca40501 100644
--- a/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/api/java/JavaStreamingContext.scala
+++ b/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/api/java/JavaStreamingContext.scala
@@ -141,8 +141,12 @@ class JavaStreamingContext(val ssc: StreamingContext) {
    */
   def this(path: String, hadoopConf: Configuration) = this(new StreamingContext(path, hadoopConf))
 
+
+  @deprecated("use sparkContext", "0.9.0")
+  val sc: JavaSparkContext = sparkContext
+
   /** The underlying SparkContext */
-  val sc: JavaSparkContext = new JavaSparkContext(ssc.sc)
+  val sparkContext = new JavaSparkContext(ssc.sc)
 
   /**
    * Create a input stream from network source hostname:port. Data is received using
diff --git a/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/util/RateLimitedOutputStream.scala b/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/util/RateLimitedOutputStream.scala
index b9c0596378b4f..179fd7593982c 100644
--- a/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/util/RateLimitedOutputStream.scala
+++ b/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/util/RateLimitedOutputStream.scala
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import scala.annotation.tailrec
 import java.io.OutputStream
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit._
 
+private[streaming]
 class RateLimitedOutputStream(out: OutputStream, bytesPerSec: Int) extends OutputStream {
   val SYNC_INTERVAL = NANOSECONDS.convert(10, SECONDS)
   val CHUNK_SIZE = 8192
diff --git a/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/util/RawTextHelper.scala b/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/util/RawTextHelper.scala
index 5b6c048a39620..07021ebb5802a 100644
--- a/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/util/RawTextHelper.scala
+++ b/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/util/RawTextHelper.scala
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import org.apache.spark.SparkContext._
 import it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.objects.{Object2LongOpenHashMap => OLMap}
 import scala.collection.JavaConversions.mapAsScalaMap
 
+private[streaming]
 object RawTextHelper {
 
   /** 
diff --git a/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/util/RawTextSender.scala b/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/util/RawTextSender.scala
index 463617a713b22..684b38e8b3102 100644
--- a/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/util/RawTextSender.scala
+++ b/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/util/RawTextSender.scala
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import org.apache.spark.util.IntParam
  * A helper program that sends blocks of Kryo-serialized text strings out on a socket at a
  * specified rate. Used to feed data into RawInputDStream.
  */
+private[streaming]
 object RawTextSender extends Logging {
   def main(args: Array[String]) {
     if (args.length != 4) {
diff --git a/streaming/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/streaming/JavaAPISuite.java b/streaming/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/streaming/JavaAPISuite.java
index 8b7d7709bf2c5..4fbbce9b8b90e 100644
--- a/streaming/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/streaming/JavaAPISuite.java
+++ b/streaming/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/streaming/JavaAPISuite.java
@@ -297,9 +297,9 @@ public void testQueueStream() {
         Arrays.asList(7,8,9));
 
     JavaSparkContext jsc = new JavaSparkContext(ssc.ssc().sc());
-    JavaRDD<Integer> rdd1 = ssc.sc().parallelize(Arrays.asList(1, 2, 3));
-    JavaRDD<Integer> rdd2 = ssc.sc().parallelize(Arrays.asList(4, 5, 6));
-    JavaRDD<Integer> rdd3 = ssc.sc().parallelize(Arrays.asList(7,8,9));
+    JavaRDD<Integer> rdd1 = ssc.sparkContext().parallelize(Arrays.asList(1, 2, 3));
+    JavaRDD<Integer> rdd2 = ssc.sparkContext().parallelize(Arrays.asList(4, 5, 6));
+    JavaRDD<Integer> rdd3 = ssc.sparkContext().parallelize(Arrays.asList(7,8,9));
 
     LinkedList<JavaRDD<Integer>> rdds = Lists.newLinkedList();
     rdds.add(rdd1);