diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 181203fd48f..bef83848995 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -102,6 +102,9 @@ Release 2.0.0 - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-4091. tools testcases failing because of MAPREDUCE-4082 (tucu)
 
     MAPREDUCE-4098. TestMRApps testSetClasspath fails (tucu)
+
+    MAPREDUCE-4097. tools testcases fail because missing mrapp-generated-classpath 
+    file in classpath (rvs via tucu)
  
 Release 0.23.3 - UNRELEASED
 
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/pom.xml b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/pom.xml
index 10eb9241b55..1b2eee5083b 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/pom.xml
@@ -92,21 +92,6 @@
           </excludes>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
-      <plugin>
-        <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
-        <executions>
-          <execution>
-            <id>build-classpath</id>
-            <phase>generate-sources</phase>
-            <goals>
-              <goal>build-classpath</goal>
-            </goals>
-            <configuration>
-              <outputFile>target/classes/mrapp-generated-classpath</outputFile>
-            </configuration>
-          </execution>
-        </executions>
-      </plugin>
       <plugin>
         <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
         <executions>
diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index ad20530af35..63d7e624c16 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -687,6 +687,11 @@
           <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
           <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
           <version>2.3.1</version>
+          <configuration>
+            <excludes>
+              <exclude>mrapp-generated-classpath</exclude>
+            </excludes>
+          </configuration>
         </plugin>
         <plugin>
           <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
@@ -791,6 +796,21 @@
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
+        <executions>
+          <execution>
+            <id>build-classpath</id>
+            <phase>generate-sources</phase>
+            <goals>
+              <goal>build-classpath</goal>
+            </goals>
+            <configuration>
+              <outputFile>target/classes/mrapp-generated-classpath</outputFile>
+            </configuration>
+          </execution>
+        </executions>
+      </plugin>
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-enforcer-plugin</artifactId>