diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 4cf4c7ad194..f63cc750593 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -529,6 +529,9 @@ Release 2.5.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-6604. The short-circuit cache doesn't correctly time out replicas that
     haven't been used in a while (cmccabe)
 
+    HDFS-4286. Changes from BOOKKEEPER-203 broken capability of including 
+    bookkeeper-server jar in hidden package of BKJM (Rakesh R via umamahesh)
+
   BREAKDOWN OF HDFS-2006 SUBTASKS AND RELATED JIRAS
 
     HDFS-6299. Protobuf for XAttr and client-side implementation. (Yi Liu via umamahesh)
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/contrib/bkjournal/pom.xml b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/contrib/bkjournal/pom.xml
index 445addd8b26..60388ac4547 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/contrib/bkjournal/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/contrib/bkjournal/pom.xml
@@ -163,38 +163,24 @@ http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
       <build>
         <plugins>
           <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>1.5</version>
+            <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
+            <version>2.8</version>
             <executions>
               <execution>
+                <id>dist</id>
                 <phase>package</phase>
                 <goals>
-                  <goal>shade</goal>
+                  <goal>copy</goal>
                 </goals>
                 <configuration>
-                  <createDependencyReducedPom>false</createDependencyReducedPom>
-                  <artifactSet>
-                    <includes>
-                      <include>org.apache.bookkeeper:bookkeeper-server</include>
-                      <include>org.apache.zookeeper:zookeeper</include>
-                      <include>org.jboss.netty:netty</include>
-                    </includes>
-                  </artifactSet>
-                <relocations>
-                  <relocation>
-                    <pattern>org.apache.bookkeeper</pattern>
-                    <shadedPattern>hidden.bkjournal.org.apache.bookkeeper</shadedPattern>
-                  </relocation>
-                  <relocation>
-                    <pattern>org.apache.zookeeper</pattern>
-                    <shadedPattern>hidden.bkjournal.org.apache.zookeeper</shadedPattern>
-                  </relocation>
-                  <relocation>
-                    <pattern>org.jboss.netty</pattern>
-                    <shadedPattern>hidden.bkjournal.org.jboss.netty</shadedPattern>
-                  </relocation>
-                </relocations>
+                  <artifactItems>
+                    <artifactItem>
+                      <groupId>org.apache.bookkeeper</groupId>
+                      <artifactId>bookkeeper-server</artifactId>
+                      <type>jar</type>
+                    </artifactItem>
+                  </artifactItems>
+                  <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/lib</outputDirectory>
                 </configuration>
               </execution>
             </executions>
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/site/apt/HDFSHighAvailabilityWithNFS.apt.vm b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/site/apt/HDFSHighAvailabilityWithNFS.apt.vm
index f250da7f73f..819b537a9bd 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/site/apt/HDFSHighAvailabilityWithNFS.apt.vm
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/site/apt/HDFSHighAvailabilityWithNFS.apt.vm
@@ -838,20 +838,18 @@ digest:hdfs-zkfcs:vlUvLnd8MlacsE80rDuu6ONESbM=:rwcda
 
      $ mvn clean package -Pdist
 
-     This will generate a jar with the BookKeeperJournalManager, all the dependencies
-     needed by the journal manager,
+     This will generate a jar with the BookKeeperJournalManager, 
      hadoop-hdfs/src/contrib/bkjournal/target/hadoop-hdfs-bkjournal-<VERSION>.jar
 
-     Note that the -Pdist part of the build command is important, as otherwise
-     the dependencies would not be packaged in the jar. The dependencies included in
-     the jar are {{{http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-shade-plugin/}shaded}} to
-     avoid conflicts with other dependencies of the NameNode.
+     Note that the -Pdist part of the build command is important, this would
+     copy the dependent bookkeeper-server jar under 
+     hadoop-hdfs/src/contrib/bkjournal/target/lib.
 
  *** <<Putting the BookKeeperJournalManager in the NameNode classpath>>
 
-    To run a HDFS namenode using BookKeeper as a backend, copy the bkjournal
-    jar, generated above, into the lib directory of hdfs. In the standard 
-    distribution of HDFS, this is at $HADOOP_HDFS_HOME/share/hadoop/hdfs/lib/
+    To run a HDFS namenode using BookKeeper as a backend, copy the bkjournal and
+    bookkeeper-server jar, mentioned above, into the lib directory of hdfs. In the 
+    standard distribution of HDFS, this is at $HADOOP_HDFS_HOME/share/hadoop/hdfs/lib/
 
     cp hadoop-hdfs/src/contrib/bkjournal/target/hadoop-hdfs-bkjournal-<VERSION>.jar $HADOOP_HDFS_HOME/share/hadoop/hdfs/lib/