diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/pom.xml b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/pom.xml
index 5cecebbf693..1747f5989d9 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient/pom.xml
@@ -143,17 +143,15 @@
               <excludes>
                 <exclude>**/hdfs-site.xml</exclude>
               </excludes>
+              <archive>
+                <manifest>
+                  <mainClass>org.apache.hadoop.test.MapredTestDriver</mainClass>
+                </manifest>
+              </archive>
             </configuration>
             <phase>test-compile</phase>
           </execution>
         </executions>
-        <configuration>       
-         <archive>
-          <manifest>
-           <mainClass>org.apache.hadoop.test.MapredTestDriver</mainClass>
-         </manifest>
-         </archive>
-        </configuration>
       </plugin>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>