diff --git a/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/examples/mllib/JavaNaiveBayesExample.java b/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/examples/mllib/JavaNaiveBayesExample.java
index d80dbe80000b3..e68681a28e9c5 100644
--- a/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/examples/mllib/JavaNaiveBayesExample.java
+++ b/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/examples/mllib/JavaNaiveBayesExample.java
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 public class JavaNaiveBayesExample {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
     SparkConf sparkConf = new SparkConf().setAppName("JavaNaiveBayesExample");
+    sparkConf.setMaster("local");
     JavaSparkContext jsc = new JavaSparkContext(sparkConf);
     // $example on$
     String path = "data/mllib/sample_libsvm_data.txt";