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 75a3e9334e6d..18605cac7006 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
@@ -142,12 +142,12 @@ 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 sparkContext = new JavaSparkContext(ssc.sc)
 
+  @deprecated("use sparkContext", "0.9.0")
+  val sc: JavaSparkContext = sparkContext
+
   /**
    * Create an input stream from network source hostname:port. Data is received using
    * a TCP socket and the receive bytes is interpreted as UTF8 encoded \n delimited
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 ce58cb12a456..4efeb8dfbe1a 100644
--- a/streaming/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/streaming/JavaAPISuite.java
+++ b/streaming/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/streaming/JavaAPISuite.java
@@ -55,6 +55,10 @@ public void equalIterable(Iterable<?> a, Iterable<?> b) {
       equalIterator(a.iterator(), b.iterator());
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void testInitialization() {
+    Assert.assertNotNull(ssc.sc());
+  }
 
   @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
   @Test