diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 85a4a0a2f9a..e4a1ffe8d2c 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -157,6 +157,9 @@ Release 0.23.1 - Unreleased
     MAPREDUCE-3477. Hadoop site documentation cannot be built anymore. 
     (jeagles via tucu)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-3488. Streaming jobs are failing because the main class
+    isnt set in the pom files. (mahadev)
+
 Release 0.23.0 - 2011-11-01 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-streaming/pom.xml b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-streaming/pom.xml
index 56a66fb2e0b..123d9ecf1be 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-streaming/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-streaming/pom.xml
@@ -116,6 +116,17 @@
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
+         <configuration>
+          <archive>
+           <manifest>
+            <mainClass>org.apache.hadoop.streaming.HadoopStreaming</mainClass>
+           </manifest>
+         </archive>
+        </configuration>
+       </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
 </project>