diff --git a/src/clojure/zero_one/geni/interop.clj b/src/clojure/zero_one/geni/interop.clj
index 99152472..7aa17951 100644
--- a/src/clojure/zero_one/geni/interop.clj
+++ b/src/clojure/zero_one/geni/interop.clj
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     [camel-snake-kebab.core :refer [->kebab-case]]
     [clojure.java.data :as j]
     [clojure.string :refer [replace-first]]
+    [clojure.walk :as walk]
     [zero-one.geni.utils :refer [ensure-coll]])
   (:import
     (java.io ByteArrayOutputStream)
@@ -52,6 +53,9 @@
 (defn ->scala-seq [coll]
   (JavaConversions/asScalaBuffer (seq coll)))
 
+(defn ->scala-tuple2 [coll]
+  (Tuple2. (first coll) (second coll)))
+
 (defn scala-tuple->vec [p]
   (->> (.productArity p)
        (range)
@@ -70,6 +74,10 @@
 (defn ->scala-function3 [f]
   (reify Function3 (apply [_ x y z] (f x y z))))
 
+(defn optional->nillable [value]
+  (when (.isPresent value)
+    (.get value)))
+
 (defmacro with-scala-out-str [& body]
   `(let [out-buffer# (ByteArrayOutputStream.)]
       (Console/withOut
@@ -77,6 +85,13 @@
         (->scala-function0 (fn [] ~@body)))
       (.toString out-buffer# "UTF-8")))
 
+(defn spark-conf->map [conf]
+  (->> conf
+       .getAll
+       (map scala-tuple->vec)
+       (into {})
+       walk/keywordize-keys))
+
 (defn ->dense-vector [values]
   (let [[x & xs] values]
     (Vectors/dense x (->scala-seq xs))))
diff --git a/src/clojure/zero_one/geni/rdd.clj b/src/clojure/zero_one/geni/rdd.clj
index 932463de..fa5bc98f 100644
--- a/src/clojure/zero_one/geni/rdd.clj
+++ b/src/clojure/zero_one/geni/rdd.clj
@@ -26,14 +26,96 @@
     (org.apache.spark.api.java JavaSparkContext)
     (org.apache.spark.sql SparkSession)))
 
+(def value (memfn value))
+
+;; Java Spark Context
 (defn java-spark-context [spark]
   (JavaSparkContext/fromSparkContext (.sparkContext spark)))
 
+(defn app-name
+  ([] (app-name @zero-one.geni.defaults/spark))
+  ([spark] (-> spark java-spark-context .appName)))
+
+(defn broadcast
+  ([value] (broadcast @zero-one.geni.defaults/spark value))
+  ([spark value] (-> spark java-spark-context (.broadcast value))))
+
+(defn checkpoint-dir
+  ([] (checkpoint-dir @zero-one.geni.defaults/spark))
+  ([spark]
+   (-> spark java-spark-context .getCheckpointDir interop/optional->nillable)))
+
+(defn conf
+  ([] (conf @zero-one.geni.defaults/spark))
+  ([spark] (-> spark java-spark-context .getConf interop/spark-conf->map)))
+
+(defn default-min-partitions
+  ([] (default-min-partitions @zero-one.geni.defaults/spark))
+  ([spark] (-> spark java-spark-context .defaultMinPartitions)))
+
+(defn default-parallelism
+  ([] (default-parallelism @zero-one.geni.defaults/spark))
+  ([spark] (-> spark java-spark-context .defaultParallelism)))
+
+(defn empty-rdd
+  ([] (empty-rdd @zero-one.geni.defaults/spark))
+  ([spark] (-> spark java-spark-context .emptyRDD)))
+
+(defn jars
+  ([] (jars @zero-one.geni.defaults/spark))
+  ([spark] (->> spark java-spark-context .jars (into []))))
+
+(defn local?
+  ([] (local? @zero-one.geni.defaults/spark))
+  ([spark] (-> spark java-spark-context .isLocal)))
+(def is-local local?)
+
+(defn local-property
+  ([k] (local-property @zero-one.geni.defaults/spark k))
+  ([spark k] (-> spark java-spark-context (.getLocalProperty k))))
+
+(defn master
+  ([] (master @zero-one.geni.defaults/spark))
+  ([spark] (-> spark java-spark-context .master)))
+
 (defn parallelise
   ([data] (parallelise @zero-one.geni.defaults/spark data))
   ([spark data] (-> spark java-spark-context (.parallelize data))))
 (def parallelize parallelise)
 
+(defn parallelise-doubles
+  ([data] (parallelise-doubles @zero-one.geni.defaults/spark data))
+  ([spark data]
+   (-> spark
+       java-spark-context
+       (.parallelizeDoubles (clojure.core/map double data)))))
+(def parallelize-doubles parallelise-doubles)
+
+(defn parallelise-pairs
+  ([data] (parallelise-pairs @zero-one.geni.defaults/spark data))
+  ([spark data]
+   (-> spark
+       java-spark-context
+       (.parallelizePairs (clojure.core/map interop/->scala-tuple2 data)))))
+(def parallelize-pairs parallelise-pairs)
+
+(defn persistent-rdds
+  ([] (persistent-rdds @zero-one.geni.defaults/spark))
+  ([spark] (->> spark java-spark-context .getPersistentRDDs (into {}))))
+
+(defn resources
+  ([] (resources @zero-one.geni.defaults/spark))
+  ([spark] (->> spark java-spark-context .resources (into {}))))
+
+(defn spark-context
+  ([] (spark-context @zero-one.geni.defaults/spark))
+  ([spark] (-> spark java-spark-context .sc)))
+(def sc spark-context)
+
+(defn spark-home
+  ([] (spark-home @zero-one.geni.defaults/spark))
+  ([spark] (-> spark java-spark-context .getSparkHome interop/optional->nillable)))
+
 (defmulti text-file (fn [head & _] (class head)))
 (defmethod text-file :default
   ([path] (text-file @zero-one.geni.defaults/spark path))
@@ -42,6 +124,10 @@
   ([spark path] (-> spark java-spark-context (.textFile path)))
   ([spark path min-partitions] (-> spark java-spark-context (.textFile path min-partitions))))
 
+(defn version
+  ([] (version @zero-one.geni.defaults/spark))
+  ([spark] (-> spark java-spark-context .version)))
+
 ;; Getters
 (defn context [rdd] (JavaSparkContext/fromSparkContext (.context rdd)))
 
@@ -58,9 +144,7 @@
 (defn num-partitions [rdd] (.getNumPartitions rdd))
 
 (defn partitioner [rdd]
-  (let [maybe-partitioner (.partitioner rdd)]
-    (when (.isPresent maybe-partitioner)
-      (.get maybe-partitioner))))
+  (interop/optional->nillable (.partitioner rdd)))
 
 (defn partitions [rdd] (.partitions rdd))
 
@@ -396,11 +480,5 @@
    none
    off-heap])
 
-;; JavaSparkContext:
-;; TODO: broadcast, default-min-partitions, default-parallelism, empty-rdd
-;; TODO: checkpoint-dir, spark-conf, local-property, persistent-rdds, spark-home
-;; TODO: local?, jars, master, parallelise-doubles, parallelise-pairs, resources,
-;; TODO: spark-context/sc, union, version
-
 ;; Others:
 ;; TODO: name unmangling / setting callsite name
diff --git a/src/clojure/zero_one/geni/spark.clj b/src/clojure/zero_one/geni/spark.clj
index 950af4d8..d603ac98 100644
--- a/src/clojure/zero_one/geni/spark.clj
+++ b/src/clojure/zero_one/geni/spark.clj
@@ -38,7 +38,4 @@
   (->> spark-session
        .sparkContext
        .getConf
-       .getAll
-       (map interop/scala-tuple->vec)
-       (into {})
-       clojure.walk/keywordize-keys))
+       interop/spark-conf->map))
diff --git a/test/zero_one/geni/rdd_test.clj b/test/zero_one/geni/rdd_test.clj
index 27188c07..7c57460d 100644
--- a/test/zero_one/geni/rdd_test.clj
+++ b/test/zero_one/geni/rdd_test.clj
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@
     [zero-one.geni.rdd :as rdd]
     [zero-one.geni.test-resources :refer [create-temp-file!]])
   (:import
-    (org.apache.spark.api.java JavaSparkContext)))
+    (org.apache.spark SparkContext)
+    (org.apache.spark.api.java JavaRDD JavaSparkContext)))
 
 (def dummy-rdd
   (rdd/text-file "test/resources/rdd.txt"))
@@ -16,6 +17,25 @@
 (def dummy-pair-rdd
   (rdd/map-to-pair dummy-rdd aot/to-pair))
 
+(facts "On JavaSparkContext methods" :rdd
+  (fact "expected static fields"
+    (rdd/app-name) => "Geni App"
+    (rdd/value (rdd/broadcast [1 2 3])) => [1 2 3]
+    (rdd/checkpoint-dir) => string?
+    (rdd/conf) => map?
+    (rdd/default-min-partitions) => integer?
+    (rdd/default-parallelism) => integer?
+    (rdd/empty-rdd) => (partial instance? JavaRDD)
+    (rdd/jars) => vector?
+    (rdd/local?) => true
+    (rdd/local-property "abc") => nil?
+    (rdd/master) => "local[*]"
+    (rdd/persistent-rdds) => map?
+    (rdd/resources) => {}
+    (rdd/spark-home) => nil?
+    (rdd/sc) => (partial instance? SparkContext)
+    (rdd/version) => "3.0.0"))
+
 (facts "On repartitioning" :rdd
   (fact "partition-by works"
     (-> dummy-rdd
@@ -199,7 +219,7 @@
       (rdd/count read-rdd) => (rdd/count write-rdd))))
 
 (facts "On basic RDD fields" :rdd
-  (let [rdd (rdd/parallelise [1])]
+  (let [rdd (rdd/parallelise-doubles [1])]
     (rdd/context rdd) => (partial instance? JavaSparkContext)
     (rdd/id rdd) => integer?
     (rdd/name rdd) => nil?
@@ -275,6 +295,8 @@
       (rdd/map-to-pair aot/to-pair)
       rdd/group-by-key
       rdd/num-partitions) => #(< 1 %)
+  (-> (rdd/parallelise-pairs [[1 2] [3 4]])
+      rdd/collect) => [[1 2] [3 4]]
   (-> dummy-pair-rdd
       (rdd/group-by-key 7)
       rdd/num-partitions) => 7