diff --git a/lang/java/mapred/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/mapreduce/AvroOutputFormatBase.java b/lang/java/mapred/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/mapreduce/AvroOutputFormatBase.java
index 587d787f27d..fc24a234d94 100644
--- a/lang/java/mapred/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/mapreduce/AvroOutputFormatBase.java
+++ b/lang/java/mapred/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/mapreduce/AvroOutputFormatBase.java
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
-import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.FileOutputCommitter;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.PathOutputCommitter;
 
 import org.apache.avro.file.CodecFactory;
 import org.apache.avro.file.DataFileConstants;
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ protected static CodecFactory getCompressionCodec(TaskAttemptContext context) {
    * @return The target output stream.
    */
   protected OutputStream getAvroFileOutputStream(TaskAttemptContext context) throws IOException {
-    Path path = new Path(((FileOutputCommitter) getOutputCommitter(context)).getWorkPath(),
+    Path path = new Path(((PathOutputCommitter) getOutputCommitter(context)).getWorkPath(),
         getUniqueFile(context, context.getConfiguration().get("avro.mo.config.namedOutput", "part"),
             org.apache.avro.mapred.AvroOutputFormat.EXT));
     return path.getFileSystem(context.getConfiguration()).create(path);