diff --git a/MavLift/README b/MavLift/README
index bc079cb0d..f15df41f4 100644
--- a/MavLift/README
+++ b/MavLift/README
@@ -7,6 +7,21 @@ I used IntelliJ IDEA as my IDE. It has nice autocompletion.
 To run, cd into the root directory (where this file is) and run:
 mvn jetty:run
 
+
+Note: You may need to add the pluginGroup to the $HOME/.m2/settings.xml
+
+<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0"
+  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0
+                      http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
+  ...
+  <pluginGroups>
+    <pluginGroup>org.mortbay.jetty</pluginGroup>
+  </pluginGroups>
+  ...
+</settings>
+
+
 To test one of the URL's use:
 curl http://localhost:8080/mongodb
 
@@ -41,4 +56,4 @@ Note: you might want to look at the mongo data from the mongo command line:
  etc.
 
 
- s.r.
\ No newline at end of file
+ s.r.