diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/AbstractLoader.java b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/AbstractLoader.java
index ca0d903b4..1e7253c11 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/AbstractLoader.java
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/AbstractLoader.java
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
  *
  * @author <a href="mailto:checkstyle@puppycrawl.com">Oliver Burn</a>
  */
-abstract class AbstractLoader
+public abstract class AbstractLoader
     extends DefaultHandler
 {
     /** the public id to resolve */
diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/ConfigurationLoader.java b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/ConfigurationLoader.java
index 3cc6b87f9..f6eb4d760 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/ConfigurationLoader.java
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/ConfigurationLoader.java
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
  * @author <a href="mailto:checkstyle@puppycrawl.com">Oliver Burn</a>
  * @version 1.0
  */
-class ConfigurationLoader
+public class ConfigurationLoader
     extends AbstractLoader
 {
     /** the public ID for the configuration dtd */