diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/AbstractLoader.java b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/AbstractLoader.java
index 72ae1d8df..ca0d903b4 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/AbstractLoader.java
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/AbstractLoader.java
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ abstract class AbstractLoader
 
     /** {@inheritDoc} */
     public InputSource resolveEntity(String aPublicId, String aSystemId)
-        throws SAXException, IOException
+        throws SAXException
     {
         if (mPublicId.equals(aPublicId)) {
             final InputStream dtdIS = getClass().getClassLoader()