diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/JobSubmitter.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/JobSubmitter.java
index a842649f5d..09edd94838 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/JobSubmitter.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/JobSubmitter.java
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
 class JobSubmitter {
   protected static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(JobSubmitter.class);
   private static final ObjectReader READER =
-      new ObjectMapper().reader(Map.class);
+      new ObjectMapper().readerFor(Map.class);
   private static final String SHUFFLE_KEYGEN_ALGORITHM = "HmacSHA1";
   private static final int SHUFFLE_KEY_LENGTH = 64;
   private FileSystem jtFs;