diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 1b6f261ecbc..9accf9fa708 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ Release 0.23.1 - Unreleased
 
     MAPREDUCE-3434. Nightly build broken (Hitesh Shah via mahadev)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-3447. mapreduce examples not working (mahadev)
+
 Release 0.23.0 - 2011-11-01 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-examples/pom.xml b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-examples/pom.xml
index 0374e237a3e..b3ee653c4da 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-examples/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-examples/pom.xml
@@ -45,5 +45,20 @@
       <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
-
+  
+  <build>
+   <plugins>
+    <plugin>
+   	 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+     <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
+  	  <configuration>
+       <archive>
+         <manifest>
+           <mainClass>org.apache.hadoop.examples.ExampleDriver</mainClass>
+         </manifest>
+       </archive>
+     </configuration>
+    </plugin>
+   </plugins>
+   </build>
 </project>