I just pulled down Cassandra 0.6.3. I saw this same issue in 0.6.2. Why is there a difference between apache-cassandra-0.6.3-bin.jar and apache-cassandra-0.6.3-src.jar when it comes to the Avro classes? The 'bin' file has 16 top level classes; while the 'src' file only has 4. Even the Javadocs only show the 4 classes.
What gives? >jar -tvf apache-cassandra-0.6.3/lib/apache-cassandra-0.6.3.jar | grep avro 0 Fri Jun 25 17:32:50 PDT 2010 org/apache/cassandra/avro/ 5615 Fri Jun 25 17:32:50 PDT 2010 org/apache/cassandra/avro/AvroValidation.class 4494 Fri Jun 25 17:32:56 PDT 2010 org/apache/cassandra/avro/Cassandra.class 1409 Fri Jun 25 17:32:50 PDT 2010 org/apache/cassandra/avro/CassandraDaemon$1.class 5206 Fri Jun 25 17:32:50 PDT 2010 org/apache/cassandra/avro/CassandraDaemon.class 1074 Fri Jun 25 17:32:50 PDT 2010 org/apache/cassandra/avro/CassandraServer$1.class 15564 Fri Jun 25 17:32:50 PDT 2010 org/apache/cassandra/avro/CassandraServer.class 1767 Fri Jun 25 17:32:56 PDT 2010 org/apache/cassandra/avro/Column.class 2043 Fri Jun 25 17:32:56 PDT 2010 org/apache/cassandra/avro/ColumnOrSuperColumn.class 1790 Fri Jun 25 17:32:56 PDT 2010 org/apache/cassandra/avro/ColumnPath.class 1334 Fri Jun 25 17:32:56 PDT 2010 org/apache/cassandra/avro/ConsistencyLevel.class 2266 Fri Jun 25 17:32:50 PDT 2010 org/apache/cassandra/avro/ErrorFactory.class 1566 Fri Jun 25 17:32:56 PDT 2010 org/apache/cassandra/avro/InvalidRequestException.class 493 Fri Jun 25 17:32:50 PDT 2010 org/apache/cassandra/avro/KeyspaceNotDefinedException.class 1542 Fri Jun 25 17:32:56 PDT 2010 org/apache/cassandra/avro/NotFoundException.class 2836 Fri Jun 25 17:32:50 PDT 2010 org/apache/cassandra/avro/RecordFactory.class 1940 Fri Jun 25 17:32:56 PDT 2010 org/apache/cassandra/avro/SuperColumn.class 1542 Fri Jun 25 17:32:56 PDT 2010 org/apache/cassandra/avro/TimedOutException.class 1554 Fri Jun 25 17:32:56 PDT 2010 org/apache/cassandra/avro/UnavailableException.class ll apache-cassandra-0.6.3-src/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/avro/ total 40K -rw-r--r-- 1 pminearo domain users 6.0K 2010-06-25 15:31 AvroValidation.java -rw-r--r-- 1 pminearo domain users 5.2K 2010-06-25 15:31 CassandraDaemon.java -rw-r--r-- 1 pminearo domain users 13K 2010-06-25 15:31 CassandraServer.java -rw-r--r-- 1 pminearo domain users 1.2K 2010-06-25 15:31 KeyspaceNotDefinedException.java -rw-r--r-- 1 pminearo domain users 3.8K 2010-06-25 15:31 RecordFactory.java