I have released version 0.7.1 of my Cassandra Connection Pool. Versions in the 0.7.x series match Cassandra 0.7.x, and therefore require libthrift 0.5. This version is also being used in the recently released Infinispan 5.0.0.CR1. The artifacts are now available in Maven Central so you just need to add the following dependency to your pom.xml [...]